From the gate to the porch went a wide walk, paved with smooth slabs of dark stone, and bordered with the tall bushes which met overhead, making a green roof. A
"Life is a train of moods like a string of beads; and as we passthrough them they prove to be many colored lenses, which paint theworld their own hue, and each
"Of no author can it be more truly said than of Louisa Alcott that her works are a revelation of herself...Writing was her constant occupation, and she was not
Louisa May Alcott's Little Women; or, Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy (1868) follows the lives, loves and tribulations of four sisters growing up during the American Civi
Little Men; or, Life at Plumfield with Jo's Boys (1871) is the second book in the Little Women trilogy. Louisa May Alcott details the life of Jo Bhaer and the s
Jo's Boys is the third book in Louisa May Alcott's Little Women trilogy, published in 1886. The book follows the lives of the Plumfield boys as they grow up and
Jack and Jill: A Village Story (1880) is a children's book set in a small New England town after the Civil War. They tumble down a hill in a sledding accident,
These sketches taken from letters hastily written in the leisure moments of a very busy life make no pretension to literary merit, but are simply a brief record
Louisa May Alcott wrote Flower Fables a collection of fanciful stories, for Ralph Waldo Emerson's daughter, Ella Emerson. It was Alcott's first published work,
Eight Cousins is the story of Rose Campbell, a sickly orphan, who comes to live with her great aunts after she is orphaned. The aunts are the matriarchs of her
Published in 1866, Behind A Mask or, A Woman's Power, is set in England during Victorian times. The story follows Jean Muir, the governess of a wealthy Coventr
An Old-Fashioned Girl, featuring Polly Milton, whose world becomes a bit bigger when she visits her wealthy friend in the city, Fanny Shaw. Alcott first publish
A Modern Mephistopheles was written by Louisa May Alcott and published anonymously in 1877, when she was 25 years old, perhaps so she could explore a "darker si
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
