Klik op een omslag om naar Google Boeken te gaan.
Bezig met laden... LOUISA MAY ALCOTT Ultimate Collection: 16 Novels & 150 Short Stories, Plays and Poems (Illustrated): Little Women, Good Wives, Little Men, Jo's Boys, ... The Abbot's Ghost, A Garland for Girls...door Louisa May Alcott
Geen Bezig met laden...
Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
Actuele discussiesGeen
Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)813.41Literature English (North America) American fiction Later 19th Century 1861-1900 Alcott, Louisa May 1832–88LC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
Ben jij dit?Word een LibraryThing Auteur. |
Miss Alcott paid off her father's debts and was petrified about incurring any more debt, whatever the cause. Her accomplishments included not only sewing for money and for charity, nursing soldiers during the Civil War, financially supporting her parents, her widowed sister and two nephews, sending her youngest sister to study art in Europe, (and raising her infant niece after that sister died) but writing some of the most beloved literature in existence. There were several male friends in her life, but she never quit working long enough to consider settling down as a wife.
This excellent collection includes some of the sensational tales alluded to in "Little Women", including a couple of horror stories and plays. Miss Alcott caught typhoid fever while nursing soldiers and was dosed with calomel, (mercuric chloride) the side effects of which caused her intense pain in her extremities for the rest of her life. She became very ill when her little niece Lulu was ten, and had Lulu sent to Switzerland to live with her father's mother. Miss Alcott died soon after.
All of Miss Alcott's stories are not sweet, wholesome tales for little girls and boys, but for the time, there were none better. She held strong abolitionist views, but the language of her day, especially regarding people in other countries, seems intolerant. Her "adult" stories can contain shockingly unexpected content.
This collection contains over 170 works by Miss Alcott, and I have relished nearly every one. ( )