A STRANGE LIFE
eBook - ePub

A STRANGE LIFE

Selected Essays of Louisa May Alcott

  1. 168 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

A STRANGE LIFE

Selected Essays of Louisa May Alcott

About this book

Louisa May Alcott (1832–1888) is, of course, best known as the author of Little Women (1868). But she was also a noted essayist who wrote on a wide range of subjects, including her father's failed utopian commune, the benefits of an unmarried life, and her experience as a young woman sent to work in service to alleviate her family's poverty. Her first literary success was a contemporary close-up account of the American Civil War, brilliantly depicted in Hospital Sketches drawn from her own experience of serving as an army nurse near the nation's capitol. As with her famous novel, Alcott writes these essays with clear observation, unforgettable scenes, and one of the sharpest wits in American literature.Blending gentle satire with reportage and emotive autobiography, Alcott's exquisite essays are as exceptional as the novels she is known for. Published together for the first time, this delightful selection shows us another side to one of our most celebrated writers.

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Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Contents
  3. Preface by Jane Smiley
  4. Introduction by Liz Rosenberg
  5. How I Went Out to Service
  6. Transcendental Wild Oats
  7. from Sketch of Childhood
  8. from Letters from Dinan
  9. from Women of Brittany
  10. from The Flood in Rome and Visit from a King
  11. My Boys
  12. from Happy Women
  13. Hospital Sketches
  14. About the Authors
  15. Copyright