Spinning-Wheel Stories - Couverture souple

Alcott, Louisa May

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0809500590 ISBN 13 : 9780809500598

Editeur : Wildside Press, 2020

Synopsis

By the author of the classic book, "Little Women," this long out-of-print collection of heart-warming tales by Louisa May Alcott show why her stories continue to endear this truly great American author to children all over the world.

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Biographie de l'auteur

Louisa May Alcott was born in Germantown, Pennsylvania on November 29, 1832. She and her three sisters, Anna, Elizabeth and May were educated by their father, philosopher/ teacher, Bronson Alcott and raised on the practical Christianity of their mother, Abigail May. Louisa spent her childhood in Boston and in Concord, Massachusetts, where her days were enlightened by visits to Ralph Waldo Emerson’s library, excursions into nature with Henry David Thoreau and theatricals in the barn at Hillside (now Hawthorne’s "Wayside"). Like her character, Jo March in Little Women, young Louisa was a tomboy: "No boy could be my friend till I had beaten him in a race," she claimed, " and no girl if she refused to climb trees, leap fences...." For Louisa, writing was an early passion. She had a rich imagination and often her stories became melodramas that she and her sisters would act out for friends. Louisa preferred to play the "lurid" parts in these plays, "the villains, ghosts, bandits, and disdainful queens." At age 15, troubled by the poverty that plagued her family, she vowed: "I will do something by and by. Don’t care what, teach, sew, act, write, anything to help the family; and I’ll be rich and famous and happy before I die, see if I won’t!" Louisa’s career as an author began with poetry and short stories that appeared in popular magazines. In 1854, when she was 22, her first book Flower Fables was published. A milestone along her literary path was Hospital Sketches (1863) based on the letters she had written home from her post as a nurse in Washington, DC as a nurse during the Civil War. When Louisa was 35 years old, her publisher Thomas Niles in Boston asked her to write "a book for girls." Little Women was written at Orchard House from May to July 1868. The novel is based on Louisa and her sisters’ coming of age and is set in Civil War New England. Jo March was the first American juvenile heroine to act from her own individuality; a living, breathing person rather than the idealized stereotype then prevalent in children’s fiction. In all, Louisa published over 30 books and collections of stories. She died on March 6, 1888, only two days after her father, and is buried in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in Concord.

Présentation de l'éditeur

"[...] "'Just the night to bring 'em out,' muttered Joe, using the whip till Buck went at his quickest trot, with his ears down and every sign of hurry and worry about him. "'Are you afraid of them?' I asked, for I'd never had a scare of this sort, though I'd heard other people tell of the fierceness of the brutes when hunger made them bold. "'Not a bit, only I wish I had my gun along,' said Joe, looking over his shoulder anxiously. "'Pity I hadn't brought mine—I do so well with it,' I said, and I laughed as I remembered how I aimed at[...]".

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Wildside Press
• Date d'édition: 2020
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0809500590
• ISBN 13: 9780809500598
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 311
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible