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Louisa May Alcott
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'On Picket Duty (and other tales) is a short-story compilation by the author of «Little Women», Louisa May Alcott. It includes the following stories: 'On Picket Duty', "The King of Clubs and the Queen of Hearts', 'The Cross on the old Church Tower' and 'The Death of John.'
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'Will's Wonder Book' was first published in «Merry's Museum» from April to November 1868 and was published in book form by Horace B. Fuller in 1870. It's a collection of dialogues between two children and their grandmother about animals and insects. A fantastic book by the author of all-time-classic 'Little Women' with detailed insights and very easy to grasp facts about the world of the animals.
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Louisa May Alcott was an American novelist best known as author of the novel Little Women, Good Wives and the sequels Little Men and Jo's Boys. The first part of the series – «Little Women» is a semi-autobiographical account of Louisa May Alcott's childhood with her sisters in Concord, Massachusetts. The novel tells the story of four teenaged sisters and their mother, Marmee. The family lives in a new neighborhood in Massachusetts in genteel poverty. Having lost all his money, their father is acting as a pastor, miles from home, involved in the American Civil War. The women face their first Christmas without him. Meg and Jo March, the elder two, have to work in order to support the family: Meg teaches a nearby family of four children; Jo assists her aged great-aunt March, a wealthy widow living in a mansion, Plumfield. Beth, too timid for school, is content to stay at home and help with housework; Amy is still at school. Meg is beautiful and traditional, Jo is a tomboy who writes; Beth is a peacemaker and a pianist; Amy is an artist who longs for elegance and fine society. Jo is impulsive and quick to anger. One of her challenges is trying to control her anger, a challenge that her mother experiences… Part two also known as «Good Wives», followed the March sisters into adulthood and their respective marriages. «Little Men» detailed Jo's life at the Plumfield School that she founded with her husband Professor Bhaer at the conclusion of Part Two of Little Women. And J"o's Boys" completed the «March Family Saga». Alcott made women's rights integral to her stories, and her fiction became her «most important feminist contribution» – even considering all the efforts Alcott made to help facilitate women's rights during her lifetime.
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'Morning-Glories, And Other Stories' is another collection of short stories, all of them written by the author of 'Little Women', Louisa May Alcott. The stories are mainly intended for young readers, but are also very charming for adults. Among the included tales are works like 'A Song for a Christmas Tree', 'Morning-Glories', 'The Rose Family', 'Poppy's Pranks' and many more.
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Musaicum Books presents the Musaicum Christmas Specials. We have selected the greatest Christmas novels, short stories and fairy tales for this joyful and charming holiday season, for all those who want to keep the spirit of Christmas alive with a heartwarming tale. Table of Contents: Merry Christmas A Christmas Dream and How It Came True Becky's Christmas Dream Kitty's Class Day Rosa's Tale Tilly's Christmas The Abbot's Ghost, or Maurice Treherne's Temptation What the Bell Saw and Said A Christmas Turkey, and How It Came The Little Red Purse A Country Christmas
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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. She had toiled faithfully over its composition, and had wrought into it many of her own girlish dreams, but the heroine was not real, and many of the situations were artificial. The defect lay in the author's own gift, which did not reach out to work of a purely imaginative character. Miss Alcott was bitterly disappointed over the meagre success of 'Moods', which she attributed to the many changes she had made in it, through the advice of the different publishers who had rejected it. In spite of the fame that her other books brought, 'Moods' always held a warm place in her heart.
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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 author's 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.
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The first part of Little Women: or Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy (1868), is a semi-autobiographical account of the author's childhood with her sisters in Concord, Massachusetts. Part two, or Part Second, also known as Good Wives (1869), followed the March sisters into adulthood and their respective marriages. Little Men (1871) detailed Jo's life at the Plumfield School that she founded with her husband Professor Bhaer at the conclusion of Part Two of Little Women. And Jo's Boys (1886) completed the «March Family Saga». Louisa May Alcott (1832 – 1888) was an American novelist best known as author of the novel Little Women, Good Wives and the sequels Little Men and Jo's Boys. Alcott made women's rights integral to her stories, and her fiction became her «most important feminist contribution» – even considering all the efforts Alcott made to help facilitate women's rights during her lifetime.
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"First, my child, what do you want most?" asked the godmother, quite in the fairy-book style. «To be loved by everybody,» answered Becky. «Good!» said the cat. «I'm pleased with that answer, it's sensible, and I'll tell you how to get your wish. Learn to make people love you by loving them.» – «Becky's Christmas Dream» Table of Contents: Merry Christmas A Christmas Dream And How It Came True Becky's Christmas Dream Kitty's Class Day Rosa's Tale Tilly's Christmas The Abbot's Ghost, Or Maurice Treherne's Temptation What the Bell Saw and Said Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888) was an American novelist and poet best known as the author of the novel Little Women (1868) and its sequels Little Men (1871) and Jo's Boys (1886).