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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

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This great collection contains the best biography of Miss Alcott I have ever come across. It includes many excerpts from her own diary, and brings to light the answers to some things that had puzzled me about some of her stories. For example, I had always wondered why there are discrepancies in the names of characters in "Eight Cousins", and the sequel, "Rose in Bloom". In reality, Miss Alcott had never planned to write a sequel to "Eight Cousins", but was pressured into it by her publisher and the need for money. Having no copies, because she would have had to write the entire book over in longhand before sending it to the publisher, she could only rely on her memory. She whipped the sequel out in three weeks, working twelve hours at a stretch, neither eating or sleeping when at work. This also might explain also why there is so much poetry copied from others in "Rose in Bloom". "Under the Lilacs" is a sweet adventure story with a happy ending, and would make a beautiful Hallmark movie. I think it was written in haste, because I found many spelling errors. "Jack and Jill" starts out with a bad sledding accident, but I personally think it makes a better story than it would a movie. "Hospital Sketches" and several other stories are based on Miss Alcott's blood-curdling nursing adventures.
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. ( )
  Patricia_Winters | Jul 30, 2020 |
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