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My Girls (Aunt Jo’s Scrap-Bag Vol. 4) – Louisa May Alcott

‘My Girls’ is number four in the ‘Aunt Jo’s Scrap-Bag series’ and includes the following stories by famous authoress Louisa May Alcott: ‘My Girls’, ‘Lost in a London Fog’, ‘Roses and Forget-Me-Nots’, ‘What the Girls did’ and many more.

My Girls (Aunt Jo’s Scrap-Bag Vol. 4).

Format: eBook.

My Girls (Aunt Jo’s Scrap-Bag Vol. 4).

ISBN: 9783849659172.

Excerpt from the text:

Once upon a time I wrote a little account of some of the agreeable boys I had known, whereupon the damsels reproached me with partiality, and begged me to write about them. I owned the soft impeachment, and promised that I would not forget them if … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

Under The Lilacs – Louisa May Alcott

Miss Alcott has won a wide circle of readers with ‘Little Women’ and other famous books. The hero of this story is a circus boy, who escapes from his oppressors and finds a shelter in a manor-house. Here he comes into contact with other children, and with her usual felicity in describing child life, Miss Alcott tells his adventures and those of his dog. It is a clever story, and will take first rank among juvenile as well as adult readers.

Under The Lilacs.

Format: eBook.

Under The Lilacs.

ISBN: 9783849659165.

Excerpt from the text:

The elm-tree avenue was all overgrown, the great gate was never unlocked, and the old house … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

A Modern Mephistopheles – Louisa May Alcott

“A Modern Mephistopheles” was one of the best novels in that remarkable collection of American fiction known as the ‘No Name’ series. Miss Alcott’s name has long been associated with it, because she never made any special effort to conceal the authorship. It is in many respects her most noteworthy effort, and by it her qualities as a writer may safely be judged. The novel is distinctly poetical in motive and the imaginative power displayed in the working out of the plot is to be classed with that of the creative artists of literature. Three souls-nay, four-are here unveiled to us, and while all are brought into bold relief, the true strength of … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

Silver Pitchers, And Other Stories – Louisa May Alcott

‘Silver Pitchers’ is a collection of nine short stories by famous American authoress Louisa May Alcott. Most of the tales deal with young girls and their early love affairs, but do not lack the moralistic touch of the author. Included are ‘Silver Pitchers’, ‘Anna’s Whim’, ‘Transcendental Wild Oats’, ‘The Romance of a Summer Day’, ‘My Rococo Watch’, ‘By the River’, ‘Letty’s Tramp’, ‘Scarlet Stockings’ and ‘Independence: A Centennial Love Story.’

Silver Pitchers, And Other Stories.

Format: eBook.

Silver Pitchers, And Other Stories.

ISBN: 9783849659141.

Excerpt from the text:

“We can do nothing about it except show our displeasure in some proper manner,” said Portia, in her most dignified tone.… Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

Rose In Bloom: A Sequel To Eight Cousins – Louisa May Alcott

‘Rose in Bloom’ is the sequel to ‘Eight Cousins’, one of many successful books by Louisa May Alcott. It continues Rose’s story into young adulthood, depicting courtship and marriage, poverty and charity, transcendental poetry and prose, as well as illness and death among her family and friends.

Rose In Bloom: A Sequel To Eight Cousins.

Format: eBook.

Rose In Bloom: A Sequel To Eight Cousins.

ISBN: 9783849659134.

Excerpt from the text:

Three young men stood together on a wharf one bright October day, awaiting the arrival of an ocean steamer with an impatience which found a vent in lively skirmishes with a small lad, who pervaded … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

Eight Cousins, Or The Aunt Hill – Louisa May Alcott

The story tells how Rose, who has been recently orphaned and must now reside with her maiden great aunts, one of the most winning heroines in juvenile fiction, and her seven boy cousins, get into scrapes, mischief and all kinds of fun. Like many of Alcott’s books for young people, this story sometimes takes a high moral tone, too.

Eight Cousins, Or The Aunt Hill.

Format: eBook.

Eight Cousins, Or The Aunt Hill.

ISBN: 9783849659127.

Excerpt from the text:

Rose sat all alone in the big best parlor, with her little handkerchief laid ready to catch the first tear, for she was thinking of her troubles, and a … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

Work: A Story Of Experience – Louisa May Alcott

This story relates, in many of its most important features and incidents, to actual experiences of its author; and in “Christie” we find the views and ideas of Miss Alcott herself expressed in such a way as to make them most interesting and valuable.

Work: A Story Of Experience.

Format: eBook.

Work: A Story Of Experience.

ISBN: 9783849659103.

Excerpt from the text:

“AUNT BETSEY, there’s going to be a new Declaration of Independence.”

“Bless and save us, what do you mean, child?” And the startled old lady precipitated a pie into the oven with destructive haste.

“I mean that, being of age, I’m going to take care of myself, … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

Shawl-Straps (Aunt Jo’s Scrap-Bag Vol. 2) – Louisa May Alcott

The title of this second volume in the ‘Aunt Jo’s Scrap-Bag’ series is imposed upon a record of the author’s journeyings in Europe, which might as appropriately have been called ” Lunch Box,” or ” Sherry Flask,” so far as the uninformed reader is concerned. In due time, however, he is apprised that the title “Shawl Straps” is supposed to indicate that the travelers – for there were three of them – abandoned their baggage train and made their campaign with personal equipage as meagre as that of Gen. Grant in his movement against Vicksburg – one clean shirt and a tooth-brush. In fact, the three lone females did, at … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

Little Men: Life at Plumfield with Jo’s Boys – Louisa May Alcott

“Dear Jo,” wrote an old protege of Mr. and Mrs. Bhaer’s, “here is a case after your own heart. This poor lad is an orphan, sick and friendless. He has been a street musician …. I think there is something in him. Give him a trial.” Readers of “Little Women” will re member Jo and his model school at Plumfield, where poor children are taught, not only how to read and to write, but how to amuse and humanize themselves. In this establishment, where each boy has a little garden of his own, a share in a menagerie of small pets, and various privileges not to be found … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

An Old-Fashioned Girl – Louisa May Alcott

Very few of even our best writers can compass a book for the young which shall be all that it ought to be, avoiding on the one hand extravagant sentimentality, and a standard so high as to be outside human nature altogether; on the other, vapid silliness which no grown girl can accept as fitting food for her mind at all, and which irritates, as all pretense and make-believe must. Some American books are, perhaps, the best of their kind for the present generation, leaving untouched our old favorites, which, however, have by this time acquired a certain musty and rococo air, and are not quite in harmony with the times. If we … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...