Louisa May Alcott - Libros y biografía

Among green New England hills stood an ancient house, many-gabled, mossy-roofed, and quaintly built, but picturesque and pleasant to the eye; for a brook ran babbling through the orchard that encompassed...

When Rose Campbell, a shy orphan, arrives at "The Aunt Hill" to live with her six aunts and seven boisterous male cousins, she is quite overwhelmed. How could such a delicate young lady, used to the quiet...

A Modern Cinderella is a collection of four short stories by Louisa May Alcott, the author of Little Women. Like her more famous novels, Alcott tells stories of young women interacting with people and...

Moods, Louisa May Alcott's first novel was published in 1864, four years before the best-selling Little Women. The novel unconventionally presents a "little woman," a true-hearted abolitionist spinster,...

Un ultimo, preziosissimo regalo dell’autrice di Piccole donne a lettrici e lettori di ogni etàIn questo terzo volume di racconti, uscito a Boston nel 1889, pochi mesi dopo la morte dell’autrice, Alcott...

Nel mese di novembre, fra le colline del New Hampshire, fiocchi di neve e folate di vento preannunciano un freddo e lungo inverno. In un turbinio di pentole fumanti e pane da impastare, di mele da affettare...

Durante un periodo di forzata immobilità, Louisa May Alcott scrisse sette storie ispirate ai fiori. Intrecciando questa meravigliosa ghirlanda per suo diletto e per le sue ragazze, raccontò dell’amore...

Donetes va tenir un èxit instantani quan es va publicar, ja que va connectar molt bé amb els lectors i les lectores; aquesta obra es considera que inaugura el gènere de la literatura juvenil de caire...

In un'aristocratica famiglia inglese fa il suo ingresso Jean Muir, istitutrice dall'aria ingenua, ma che nasconde un fine malvagio. La ragazza è gentile con tutti, ma talvolta la sua lingua biforcuta...

Flower fables was the first work published by Louisa May Alcott and appeared on December 9, 1854. The book was a compilation of fanciful stories first written six years earlier for Ellen Emerson (daughter...

Dall’autrice di Piccole donne, amata da generazioni di lettrici e di lettori, considerata come una delle più originali e rivoluzionarie scrittrici di sempre. Una rarissima perla letteraria, una scoperta...

Dimenticate le piccole borghesi per bene. La Alcott intinge la sua penna nell'inchiostro più nero e torbido che usa, con la maestria che l'ha resa nota ed amata a generazioni di giovinette e non solo,...

Les Quatre Filles du docteur March Resumé : Aux Etats-Unis, en pleine guerre de Sécession, les quatre jeunes soeurs March, Margaret (surnommée Meg), Joséphine (Jo), Elisabeth (Beth) et Amy vivent...

Dopo il clamoroso successo del primo volume, undici nuovi racconti inediti dell’autrice di Piccole donne, amata da generazioni di lettrici e di lettori, una delle più originali e rivoluzionarie scrittrici...

"Has she come?" "No, Mamma, not yet." "I wish it were well over. The thought of it worries and excites me. A cushion for my back, Bella." And poor, peevish Mrs. Coventry sank into an easy chair with a...

Trevlyn lands and Trevlyn gold, Heir nor heiress e'er shall hold, Undisturbed, till, spite of rust, Truth is found in Trevlyn dust. "This is the third time I've found you poring over that old rhyme....

Three young men stood together on a wharf one bright October day awaiting the arrival of an ocean steamer with an impatience which found a vent in lively skirmishes with a small lad, who pervaded the...

Being Boston girls, of course they got up a club for mental improvement, and, as they were all descendants of the Pilgrim Fathers, they called it the Mayflower Club. A very good name, and the six young...

Generations of readers young and old, male and female, have fallen in love with the March sisters of Louisa May Alcott's most popular and enduring novel, Little Women. Here are talented tomboy and author-to-be...

No home library is complete without the classics! Little Women is a keepsake to be read and treasured.When Little Women was first published in 1868, it became an instant bestseller. The book’s gentle...

This comprehensive eBook presents the complete works or all the significant works - the Œuvre - of this famous and brilliant writer in one ebook - 13.000 pages easy-to-read and easy-to-navigate: • Little...

In Louisa May Alcott's novel "Eight Cousins," readers are transported into the life of young Rose Campbell, who suddenly finds herself orphaned and under the care of her bachelor uncle. The novel explores...

'A Strange Island' is Alcott's take on many Mother Goose characters and tales, Mother Goose being the anonymous poet and writer behind timeless pieces such as 'Jack and Jill', 'Baa Baa Black Sheep' and...

Evelyn's pride and high standards lead her to marry a man she doesn't love, while leaving the man she does love in the past as a piece of history. Her true love is one who is "rich in youth, comeliness,...

This collection of letters and journal entries was curated by Alcott's close friend Edna Dow Cheney, and published just a year after Alcott's death. This collection serves to paint a full picture of the...

Instead of Instagram-ing her grand tour of Europe, Louisa May Alcott wrote this collection of short stories inspired by it. Whilst not directly about 'Little Women' (boo) the stories switch from fiction...

'A Garland for Girls' is a collection of stories written by Alcott for her own amusement in a time of "enforced confinement". The collection is a wonderful assortment of hopelessly sweet tales of the...

Alcott's first published work, 'Flower Fables' was originally written for the daughter of her good friend Ralph Waldo Emerson. The worlds of these wonderful fairy tales are populated with elves, fairies...

'Work: A Story of Experience' is a semi-autobiographical novel loosely based on Alcott's own life, which explores the social standing of women in the US, in the years around the Civil War. Christie,...

Pauline Valery is a scorned woman, rejected by her lover Gilbert Redmond for a wealthy heiress, she will stop at nothing to exact revenge. She will don a metaphorical mask, shielding her true emotions...