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Des de la publicació de «Donetes» l'any 1868, Louisa May Alcott havia estat considerada una escriptora conservadora de novel·les romàntiques per a adolescents. No obstant això, durant les últimes tre

Little Women is one of the best-loved children's stories of all time, based on the author's own youthful experiences. It describes the family of the four March sisters living in a small New England community. Meg, the eldest, is pretty and wishes to be a lady; Jo, at fifteen is ungainly and unconventional with an ambition to be an author; Beth is a delicate child of thirteen with a taste for music and Amy is a blonde beauty of twelve. The story of their domestic adventures, their attempts to increase the family income, their friendship with the neighbouring Laurence family, and their later love affairs remains as fresh and beguiling as ever.

My Girls is number four in the Aunt Jos 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 G

This is a collection of stories by Louisa May Alcott, the famous authoress of classics like Little Women. Included are A Christmas Dream, The Candy Country, Naughty Jocko, The Skipping Shoes, Cockyloo, Rosys Journey, How They Ran Away, The Fairy Box, A Hole In The Wall, The Piggy Girl and The Three Frogs.

"A Modern Mephistopheles" was one of the best novels in that remarkable collection of American fiction known as the No Name series. Miss Alcotts 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 soulsnay, fourare here unveiled to us, and while all are brought into bold relief, the true strength of the book undoubtedly lies in the portrayal of Gladys, who is a genuine woman of a fresh and original type. Helwyze is, of course, frankly impossible, and Canaris is only probable, while Olivia is a picturesque foil; but in Gladys there is no incredible or superfluous trait: she is thoroughly and deliciously feminine. The moral lesson is not to be ignored. Like the evil genius of Faust, Helwyze sought to work evil, but the forces that made for righteousness were against him and he was defeated in the very hour of his triumph. It is the recognition of the higher law controlling human deeds that gives "A Modern Mephistopheles" its hold upon popular esteem.

A collection of short stories by the famous authoress of classics like Little Women. Each story is woven about the flower from which it takes its name. The lessons of self-sacrifice and kindness to others contained in these stories cannot fail to help the youthful readers, so earnestly are they presented by the author, who has endeared herself to girls.

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.

Rose in Bloom is the sequel to Eight Cousins, one of many successful books by Louisa May Alcott. It continues Roses 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.

It was simply impossible to hide any longer the melancholy fact that Miss Alcotts Little Men were growing up; they have refused to remain the charming boys they were when we read about them in said book. Like other boys of the same generation, they were fast becoming men, and we shall soon lose sight of them in the crowded ranks of mature life. It is very pleasant, therefore, to have another glimpse of them in Jos Boys and How They Turned Out. Of course everybody who knew Little Men felt that with such a training and such surroundings they could not but turn out well, but everybody will rejoice to read the record of their growth and progress toward manhood. Their later story will be read by the same readers who were fascinated by the earlier record of their mingled sobriety and mischief, for the very good reason that these readers have grown up with the boys themselves. Miss Alcott has not lost her skill, and she makes her older boys quite as interesting and charming as the younger boys were. Altogether, her last volume, like its predecessors, is pre-eminently natural, healthful, and fascinating. It is one of the books for young people that long remained current at the bookstores.

"Jimmys Cruise In The Pinafore" is number five in the Aunt Jos Scrap-Bag series and includes the following stories by famous authoress Louisa May Alcott: Jimmys Cruise in the Pinafore, Two Little Travellers, A Jolly Fourth, Seven Black Cats, Rosas Tale, Lunch, A Bright Idea, How they Camped Out, My Little School-Girl, What a Shovel Did, Clams and many more.

"An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving" is number six in the Aunt Jos Scrap-Bag series and includes the following stories by famous authoress Louisa May Alcott: An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving, How It All Happened, The Dolls Journey From Minnesota To Maine, Morning Glories, Shadow-Children, Poppys Pranks, What The Swallows Did, Little Gulliver and many more.

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 new, to amuse the large family that has so rapidly and beautifully grown up about her. Her hopes were, that when they promenade in night-caps and gowns to rifle the plump stockings, the little "dears" will utter an "Oh!" of pleasure, and give a prance of satisfaction, when they pull out this small gift from Aunt Jos scrap-bag. Among the stories included are My Boys, Tessas Surprises, Buzz, The Childrens Joke. Dandelion, Madam Cluck, and her Family, A Curious Call, Tillys Christmas and many others.

This is a collection of stories by Louisa May Alcott, the famous authoress of classics like Little Women. Included are Recollections Of My Childhood, A Christmas Turkey, And How It Came, The Silver Party, The Blind Lark, Music And Macaroni, The Little Red Purse and many more.

Miss Alcotts collection of stories for Christmas was called Spinning Wheel Stories. The first story in the book, Grandmas story, relates an incident with wolves which happened in New England. Miss Alcott has become an adroit story teller . As one reads the vivid story of this wild race with wolves, he holds his breath with fear, because it seems so real. Into this book Miss Alcotti has gathered a dozen stories. Among them is Onawandah, an Indian. There is a peculiar charm in Indian stories. Daisys Jewel Box is another excellent story, but there is no use in making selections because the book is filled with them.

This is a collection of stories by Louisa May Alcott, the famous authoress of classics like Little Women. Included are The Frost-King, Lilybell and Thistledown, Ripple, the water-sprite, Evas visit to fairyland, Sunshine, and her brothers and sisters, The fairy spring and many more.

This is the third volume in Louisa May Alcotts Ant Jos Scrap-Bag series, including stories like Cupid and Chow-Chow, Huckleberry, Nellys Hospital, Grandmas Team, Fairy Pinafores, Mammas Plot, Kates C

The title of this second volume in the Aunt Jos Scrap-Bag series is imposed upon a record of the authors 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 a certain stage in their journey, desert their "Saratogas," and for a season travelled in light order. That this season was a brief one, it is hardly necessary to say; a woman divorced from her trunken voyage, presents one of the most painful exhibitions of anguish that human nature ever affords. It is worthy of note that the chapters of the book which treat of this trunkless we had almost said truncated time, are far less spirited and jolly than their associates which deal with a period of habilimental opulence, and reflect faithfully the serene and self-satisfied condition of the authors mind.

Merely to intimate that are other stories by Miss Alcott than Little Women will be sufficient to set the world of juvenile readers on tip-toe with pleased expectation, and those who are fortunate enough to become the possessors of "Jack and Jill" will surely not be disappointed. If it is not equal to " Little Women," it at least surpasses all other stories from the same pen, in that delightfully real manner of painting child-life which has made the authors name a household word not only in England and America, but in France, where her works have been translated and met with a wide sale. In the days when good juvenile literature is so general, it is pleasant to meet with books of such exceptional merit books which may already be fairly ranked as classics. "Jack and Jill" is undoubtedly one of the best stories for young people.

This is a gathering up into book form of stories previously published in magazines at a time, when the health of the author being such that she was forbidden the work of preparing new ones. There are eight in all, of which only The Barons Gloves has not before appeared in print. To most of the young folks they are new, and will be greeted with the welcome which is always accorded to anything of Miss Alcotts. The demand for childrens stories is not likely to grow less in our day, and though it is needless to speak with approval of this authors work, we will yet say that we may accept the fact of this demand with more ready cheerfulness, when we consider that if any boy can read, in this book, My Red Cap, without getting a better understanding of what it is to be true and manly than he ever had before, or any girl read Psyches Art, and not see, lying right in her path, the way for her to be a genuine woman, they are not fair samples of the boys and girls of the present reading public

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.