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Moods
Moods – Louisa May Alcott In 1861 Miss Alcott published her novel ‚Moods‘, the most ambitious work she had yet attempted, and one on which she placed many fond hopes. But although ‚Moods‘ represented all the ideality and poetry of life as it then appeared to the young author, it was not a great success. […]
Hospital Sketches
Hospital Sketches – Louisa May Alcott This book purports to be a record of the adventures of a spirited maiden, who served her country in the hospital with the same cheerful spirit New England girls are noted for manifesting at home. The sketches are almost a literal reproduction of Louisa May Alcott’s letters to her […]
Miss or Mrs.?
Miss or Mrs.? – Wilkie Collins ‚Miss or Mrs.?‘ is a story in outline, and maybe the only instance in which Mr. Wilkie Collins has wasted his material; an entire novel might be constructed in his architectural style from its Incidents. There are several specimens of Mr. Wilkie Collins’s neat, precise humor in this story, […]
Poor Mrs. Finch
Poor Mrs. Finch – Wilkie Collins Mr. Wilkie Collins brings to his work, along with other and valuable qualities, the special talent of the private detective and the criminal lawyer. Almost no modern novelist stands in any comparison with him for skill in constructing the engrenage, as a Frenchman would call it, of personal complication, […]
Armadale
Armadale – Wilkie Collins Wilkie Collins has given us in this novel one more instance of his strange capacity for weaving extra plots. Armadale, from beginning to end, is a lurid labyrinth of improbabilities. It produces upon the reader the effect of a literary nightmare. Miss Gwilt, Mrs. Oldershaw, and Doctor Le Doux of the […]
My Boys (Aunt Jo’s Scrap-Bag Vol. 1)
My Boys (Aunt Jo’s Scrap-Bag Vol. 1) – Louisa May Alcott As some grandmothers rummage their piece-bags and bundles in search of gay odds and ends to make gifts with which to fill the little stockings that hang all in a row on Christmas Eve, Louisa May Alcott has gathered together some stories, old and […]
Bayou Folk
Bayou Folk – Kate Chopin A pretty book of tales drawn from life among the Creoles and Acadians of Louisiana. They represent with fidelity and spirit characters and customs unfamiliar to most readers ; they are admirably told, with just enough dialect for local color; and they can hardly fail to be very popular. Some […]
Blind Love
Blind Love – Wilkie Collins It is on the true story of Baron Carl Ludwig von Scheurer, in which so many insurance companies were interested, that Wilkie Collins based the plot of his novel ‚Blind Love,‘ a work which he did not live to complete by his own hand. In August 1889, when its publication […]
The Legacy of Cain
The Legacy of Cain – Wilkie Collins Wilkie Collins‘ last-but-one novel was originally published in 1889. The Reverend Abel Gracedieu raises two daughters. One of them was adopted seventeen years before the story starts because her mother was executed for murdering her husband. The main question of the plot is whether this adoption will not end […]
Little Novels
Little Novels – Wilkie Collins Wilkie Collins‘ ‚Little Novels‘ is a collection of ingenious stories, told with some of the marvellous skill that made the author of The Woman in White famous. Villany is frustrated by devious ways, and a mind must be much preoccupied indeed that cannot for a time lose itself in Mr. […]