The Works of Louisa May Alcott (Annotated with Biography of Alcott and Plot Analysis)
Title | The Works of Louisa May Alcott (Annotated with Biography of Alcott and Plot Analysis) PDF eBook |
Author | Louisa May Alcott |
Publisher | Golgotha Press |
Total Pages | 6739 |
Release | 2013-11-22 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1610426045 |
The Works of Louisa May Alcott are collected in this giant anthology. Included with this collection is a biography about the life and times of Alcott, and essay on each of Alcott's major works. Works include: Old-fashioned Girl Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag The Candy Country Comic Tragedies Eight Cousins Louisa May Alcott's Flower Fables A Garland for Girls Jack and Jill Jo's Boys Kitty's Class Day And Other Stories Little Men Little Women Little Women Letters from the House of Alcott The Louisa Alcott Reader Lulu's Library Marjorie's Three Gifts A Modern Cinderella Moods The Mysterious Key And What It Opened Picket Duty and Other Tales Passion and Punishment Rose in Bloom Shawl-Straps Silver Pitchers: and Independence Three Unpublished Poems Under the Lilacs Work: A Story of Experience
The Little Women Series (Annotated with Biography of Alcott and Plot Analysis)
Title | The Little Women Series (Annotated with Biography of Alcott and Plot Analysis) PDF eBook |
Author | Louisa May Alcott |
Publisher | Golgotha Press |
Total Pages | 600 |
Release | 2013-11-22 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1610426053 |
Though Little Women is the best known book in the Little Women Series, Alcott penned two others; all three books are collected here with a biography of Louisa May Alcott. They are: Little Women Little Men Jo's Boys
Little Women (Annotated with Biography of Alcott and Plot Analysis)
Title | Little Women (Annotated with Biography of Alcott and Plot Analysis) PDF eBook |
Author | Louisa May Alcott |
Publisher | Golgotha Press |
Total Pages | 771 |
Release | 2013-11-22 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1610426061 |
Louisa May Alcott wrote Little Women as a study of an American family during the Civil War. It was also very closely based on her own experience as a member of the Alcott family. The protagonist of the story, Josephine “Jo” March is based on Louisa herself. The other three March sisters are closely modeled on her own sisters. This annotated edition includes a biography and critical essay.
Little Men (Annotated with Biography of Alcott and Plot Analysis)
Title | Little Men (Annotated with Biography of Alcott and Plot Analysis) PDF eBook |
Author | Louisa May Alcott |
Publisher | Golgotha Press |
Total Pages | 453 |
Release | 2013-11-22 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1610426088 |
Little Men focuses on Plumfield School that Jo and her husband, Professor Bhaer, run on an estate inherited from Jo’s Aunt March. The education that the children receive at Plumfield is based largely on the philosophical ideas of the author’s father, Bronson Alcott, who was a teacher and philosopher. Louisa May Alcott included plot lines that reflected her own philosophy of equal education and opportunities for girls. The book follows the trials and tribulations of other students in the school and ultimately, the Bhaers win them over and their school provides the youngsters with a secure and loving environment in which they can thrive. This annotated edition includes a biography and critical essay.
Eight Cousins (Annotated with Biography of Alcott and Plot Analysis)
Title | Eight Cousins (Annotated with Biography of Alcott and Plot Analysis) PDF eBook |
Author | Louisa May Alcott |
Publisher | Golgotha Press |
Total Pages | 267 |
Release | 2013-11-22 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 161042607X |
Eight Cousins was published in 1875 and it is one of the few novels, if not the only one, where Alcott concentrates on one character. The protagonist of Eight Cousins is Rose Campbell. Some of Alcott’s feminist ideals come through in Eight Cousins, as they do to some degree in all her novels. Rose is allowed to choose clothing that is healthier and less restrictive than the typical Victorian garb for girls and women. Alcott also has Rose learn a skill – albeit one that is traditional for women – housekeeping. She learns how to perform domestic chores with skill and efficiency. Rose is transformed from a timid orphan girl to an educated competent young woman in the course of one year. This annotated edition includes a biography and critical essay.
The Annotated Little Women (The Annotated Books)
Title | The Annotated Little Women (The Annotated Books) PDF eBook |
Author | Louisa May Alcott |
Publisher | W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | 736 |
Release | 2015-11-02 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0393248828 |
The Pulitzer Prize–winning biographer of Louisa May Alcott illuminates the world of Little Women and its author. Since its publication in 1868–69, Little Women, perhaps America’s most beloved children’s classic, has been handed down from mother to daughter for generations. It has been translated into more than fifty languages and inspired six films, four television shows, a Broadway musical, an opera, and a web series. This lavish, four-color edition features over 220 curated illustrations, including stills from the films, stunning art by Norman Rockwell, and iconic illustrations by children’s-book illustrators Alice Barber Stevens, Frank T. Merrill, and Jessie Wilcox Smith. Renowned Alcott scholar John Matteson brings his expertise to the book, to the March family it creates, and to the Alcott family who inspired it all. Through numerous photographs taken in the Alcott family home expressly for this edition—elder daughter Anna’s wedding dress, the Alcott sisters’ theater costumes, sister May’s art, and Abba Alcott’s recipe book—readers discover the extraordinary links between the real and the fictional family. Matteson’s annotations evoke the once-used objects and culture of a distant but still-relevant time, from the horse-drawn carriages to the art Alcott carefully placed in her story to references to persons little known today. His brilliant introductory essays examine Little Women’s pivotal place in children’s literature and tell the story of Alcott herself—a tale every bit as captivating as her fiction.
Jo's Boys (Annotated with Biography of Alcott and Plot Analysis)
Title | Jo's Boys (Annotated with Biography of Alcott and Plot Analysis) PDF eBook |
Author | Louisa May Alcott |
Publisher | Golgotha Press |
Total Pages | 405 |
Release | 2013-11-22 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1610426096 |
Jo’s Boys continues the story of many of the characters that appeared in Little Women and Little Men. Jo and her husband Professor Bhaer are now running Laurence College, the funding of which was made possible by the estate of Old Mr. Laurence. The institution supports the educational philosophy and practices evident in Little Men and reflects the ideas of Alcott and her father Amos Bronson Alcott, an educator and philosopher. Laurence College is a post-secondary school where the students of Little Men are continuing their education. This annotated edition includes a biography and critical essay.