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Louisa May Alcott (November 29, 1832 - March 6, 1888) was an American novelist. She is best known for the novel Little Women, set in the Alcott family home, Orchard House in Concord, Massachusetts, and published in 1868. This novel is loosely based on her childhood experiences with her three sisters.Alcott was the daughter of noted transcendentalist and educator Amos Bronson Alcott and Abigail May Alcott. Alcott's early education included lessons from the naturalist Henry David Thoreau. She received the majority of her schooling from her father. She received some instruction also from writers and educators such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Margaret Fuller, who were all family friends. She later described these early years in a newspaper sketch entitled "Transcendental Wild Oats." The sketch was reprinted in the volume Silver Pitchers (1876), which relates the family's experiment in "plain living and high thinking" at Fruitlands.As an adult, Alcott was an abolitionist and a feminist. In 1847, the family housed a fugitive slave for one week. In 1848, Alcott read and admired the "Declaration of Sentiments" published by the Seneca Falls Convention on women's rights.Poverty made it necessary for Alcott to go to work at an early age as an occasional teacher, seamstress, governess, domestic helper, and writer. Her first book was Flower Fables (1849), a selection of tales originally written for Ellen Emerson, daughter of Ralph Waldo Emerson. In 1860, Alcott began writing for the Atlantic Monthly. When the American Civil War broke out, she served as a nurse in the Union Hospital at Georgetown, D.C., for six weeks in 1862-1863. Her letters home - revised and published in the Commonwealth and collected as Hospital Sketches (1863, republished with additions in 1869) - garnered her first critical recognition for her observations and humor. Her novel Moods (1864), based on her own experience, was also promising.She also wrote passionate, fiery novels and sensational stories under the nom de plume A. M. Barnard. Among these are A Long Fatal Love Chase and Pauline's Passion and Punishment. Her protagonists for these tales are willful and relentless in their pursuit of their own aims, which often include revenge on those who have humiliated or thwarted them. Written in a style which was wildly popular at the time, these works achieved immediate commercial success. (Wikipedia.org)

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ISBN9781647995126
PublisherBibliotech Press
Publication Date05/22/20
Pages232

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  • rockofbooks
    rockofbooks

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    4.0

    Welcome to Plumfield. Meet the pubils, the children and Mr and Mrs Bhaer. The German Professor and our dear Jo opened a school for boys, but even some girls lived there. Meet one of the Hummels, a german woman - we remember our dear Beth just helped the family (in little women). Say hello to Teddy Laurence and wife Amy, the old Mr Laurie, Meg and husband John Brooke, father and mother March. It was just like meeting old friends. and I cried a lot while reading. The story itself started with the entry of Nat. He was sended by Mr Laurence. It is about the boys, not just the adults - which I missed sometimes. but to read how Jo made was beautiful. In Little Women she was such a wild kid. she truely loved her sisters and Teddy but her mind was totally free and full of thoughts and stories. She loved to write. Remember how she got-to-know her Future husband. It is not the same and you should realise that there isn't the magic like it was with the old Laurence and Beth but it has something special inside. Anyway, it was my third Louisa May Alcott book (little women -with good wives in one; an old-fashined girl abd now little men) and I need to say that I really like her writing. Even I think that Little women will always be my favorite from her, the others are pretty, too lovely.

    Dec 31, 2024

  • worldofbookdreams
    worldofbookdreams

    39 Followers

    5.0

    Dieses Buch ist für mich ein wahres Jahreshighlight. Der Schreibstil war super flüssig und so authentisch, dass ich wirklich wunderbar in die Geschichte eintauchen konnte. Die Geschichte hat mich zurück in meine Kindheit versetzt und mich an Buchreihen wie Hanni & Nanni oder Burg Schreckenstein erinnert, nur dass sie deutlich älter ist. Alles in allem ein wirklich perfektes und richtig schönes Buch, das ich nur wärmstens weiterempfehlen kann :)

    Jul 15, 2024

  • isas_bookworld
    isas_bookworld

    31 Followers

    4.0

    Eine unglaublich süße Geschichte! - Teil 3 Den Schreibstil des Buches fand ich sehr angenehm und flüssig zu lesen. Geschrieben ist die Geschichte dabei in der Er-/Sie-Perspektive, was aufgrund der vielen Charaktere, deren Beziehungen zueinander das Hauptthema des Buches ist, auch sehr gut zur Geschichte passt. Jo hat zusammen mit ihrem Ehemann eine Art Internat gegründet. Sie haben es sich zum Ziel gesetzt, den Jungen die bestmögliche Basis für ein späteres erfolgreiches Leben zu ermöglichen. Dabei liegt der Fokus vor allem auch auf Kindern mit wenig Geld oder gar ohne Eltern. Das Buch handelt also primär von diesen Kindern - darunter auch die Söhne und Töchter der Schwestern aus Little Women -, die sich selbst und das Leben besser kennenlernen. Ich fand die Kinder allesamt bezaubernd. Sie haben frischen Wind in die Welt von Little Women gebracht, und mich des Öfteren zum Lachen. Die Kinder sind allesamt ihre ganz eigenen Persönlichkeiten, was zu viel Trubel führt. Einige von ihnen spielen gerne Streiche, anderer versinken am liebsten in einem Buch. Das zusammen mit den altbekannten Charakteren, die einem schon lange ans Herz gewachsen sind, macht das Buch zu etwas wirklich tollem. Die Geschichte der Jungs und Mädchen mitzuerleben macht größtenteils wirklich Spaß, da ihre Abenteuer einen zum Lachen bringen, aber auch zum Nachdenken anregen. Man lernt sozusagen mit ihnen zusammen neue Dinge und Weisheiten fürs Leben. Allerdings muss ich leider auch sagen, dass mir manche Szenen zu detaillierten beschrieben wurden, sodass ich das Buch stellenweise etwas langatmig fand. Trotzdem kommt die Geschichte wirklich süß und manchmal auch wirklich emotional daher, weshalb es sich hierbei bisher sogar im meinen liebsten Teil der Reihe handelt. Alles in allem fand ich die Geschichte also wirklich schön, weshalb das Buch von mir 4 Sterne bekommt.

    Mar 2, 2023

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