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A Strange Life
Selected Essays of Louisa May Alcott
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Ideal for readers interested in classic American literature, women's perspectives in history, and fans of Louisa May Alcott seeking to explore her lesser-known essays and personal experiences.
Collected together for the very first time, witty and wide-ranging essays from the celebrated author of Little Women
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Collected together for the very first time, witty and wide-ranging essays from the celebrated author of Little Women.
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, which was drawn from her own experience of serving as an army nurse near the nation's capital. 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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ISBN: 9781912559435
Publisher: Notting Hill Editions
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 26 October 2023
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Notting Hill Editions
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 14.0mm
Width: 120.0mm
Height: 190.0mm
Weight: 206g
Pages: 168
About the Author
Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888) was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet best known as the author of the novel Little Women (1868) and its sequels Little Men (1871) and Jo's Boys (1886). Raised in New England by hertranscendentalistparents,Abigail MayandAmos Bronson Alcott, she grew up among many well-known intellectuals of the day, such asRalph Waldo Emerson,Nathaniel Hawthorne,Henry David Thoreau, andHenry Wadsworth Longfellow. Liz Rosenberg is the author of two biographies on women authors- House of Dreams- A Biography of L. M. Montgomery and Sorrows, Scribbles and Russet Leather Boots- A Biography of Louisa May Alcott. She is aChancellor Award-winning professor of English at the State University of New York at Binghamton, and the author of numerous prize-winning books of fiction, poetry, and works for young readers. She lives in Binghamton, New York. Jane Smiley is the author of many novels and works of nonfiction. Her latest novel is A Dangerous Business, a mystery set in 1850s Monterey, California, and her latest nonfiction book is TheQuestions that Matter Most.She writes in many genres and she won the Pulitzer Prize in 1992 for A Thousand Acres.
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