Research Catalog

Title

• Louisa May Alcott : selected fiction / with an introduction by Madeleine B. Stern ; edited by Daniel Shealy, Madeleine B. Stern, and Joel Myerson.

Author

Alcott, Louisa May, 1832-1888

Publication

Athens : University of Georgia Press, 2001.

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Additional Authors

• Myerson, Joel
• Shealy, Daniel
• Stern, Madeleine B., 1912-2007

Description

xlvi, 478 p.; 24 cm.

Uniform Title

Novels. Selections

Alternative Title

Novels.

Subject

• New England > Social life and customs > Fiction
• Women > New England > Fiction

Genre/Form

• Fiction
• Fictional Work
• Romans.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The rival painters: a tale of Rome (1852) -- The rival prima donnas (1854) -- The frost-king: or, the power of love (Flower Fables, 1855) -- The lady and the woman (1850) -- Love and self-love (1860) -- Hope's debut (1867) -- Thrice tempted (1867) -- Perilous play (1869) -- M.L. (1863) -- A night (Hospital Sketches, 1863) -- The Blue and the Gray. A hospital sketch (1868) -- Dull, but necessary (Moods, 1865, 1882) -- At forty (Work, 1873) -- A modern Mephistopheles, chapters I and XII (1877) -- The sisters' trial (1856) -- A modern Cinderella: or, The little old shoe (1860) -- Merry's monthly chat (1868) -- A merry Christmas (Little Women) -- Secrets (Little Women) -- Literary lessons (Little Women) -- The valley of the shadow (Little Women) -- A fire brand (Little Men, 1871) -- Ten years later (Jo's Boys, 1886) -- Positively last appearance (Jo's Boys) -- My boys (Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag, 1872-1882) -- My girls (Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag) -- Eli's education (Spinning-Wheel Stories, 1884) --Christmas dream, and how it came true (Lulu's Library, 1886-1889) -- Sophie's secret (Lulu's Library) -- Pansies (A Garland for Girls, 1888) -- Polly's troubles (An Old-Fashioned Girl, 1870) -- Uncles (Eight Cousins, 1875) -- Coming home (Rose in Bloom, 1876) -- Jo's last scrape (Jo's Boys, 1886) -- Transcendental wild oats: chapter from an unwritten romance (1873) -- How I went out to service (1874) -- Recollections of my childhood (1888).

ISBN

0820323136 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^00054502^

OCLC

45636841

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library