Research Catalog

Title

The portable Louisa May Alcott / edited with an introduction by Elizabeth Lennox Keyser.

Author

Alcott, Louisa May, 1832-1888

Publication

New York : Penguin Books, 2000.

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Holdings

Details

Additional Authors

Keyser, Elizabeth Lennox, 1942-

Description

xxviii, 612 p.; 20 cm.

Summary

"The Portable Louisa May Alcott samples the entire spectrum of Alcott's writings: her novels, novellas, children's stories, sensationalist fiction, gothic tales, memoirs, letters, and journals. Presenting her more daring works, such as Moods and Behind a Mask, alongside the more familiar heroines, and including a selection of personal writing, this singular collection shows the relationship not only between Little Women and Alcott's family life but also between Little Women and the sensation fiction - and how this apparent dichotomy illuminates who Alcott was."--Jacket.

Series Statement

The Viking portable library

Uniform Title

Viking portable library

Subject

• Alcott, Louisa May, 1832-1888 > Correspondence
• Alcott, Louisa May, 1832-1888 > Diaries
• 1800-1899
• Authors, American > 19th century > Correspondence
• Authors, American > 19th century > Diaries
• New England > Social life and customs > Fiction
• New England > Intellectual life > 19th century

Genre/Form

• Diaries
• Fiction
• Records and correspondence

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 607-612).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Short fiction -- Novels and novellas -- Memoirs, journals, and letters.

ISBN

0140275746

LCCN

^^^99057115^

OCLC

• 42810807
• SCSB-10557689

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library