Six Novels by Louisa May Alcott (Complete and Unabridged): An Old-Fashioned Girl, Work: A Story of Experience, Eight Cousins, Rose in Bloom, Under the

by Louisa May Alcott

Louisa May Alcott (1832 - 1888) was an American novelist best known as author of the Little Women series of novels. This single volume contains six of her most popular novels, complete and An Old-fashioned Polly, the old-fashioned girl, becomes friends with her wealthy Boston cousins and learns about love, happiness and riches. A Story of Christie throws herself into the working world aged 21 and this is her story, ending up as an intelligent and wise woman in her 40s. The book is a wonderful tale of her trials and tribulations along the way. Eight Rose is orphaned girl and sent to be raised by her Uncle Alec and the extended family of Uncles and Aunts and seven male cousins. Alec raises her in his own unorthodox way and Rose flourishes - going from being sad and meek to educated and confident. Rose in Bloom (sequel to Eight Cousins): Rose Campbell returns home after her travels to find she is expected to marry. She is surrounded by admirers but is it the money they admire most? Under the Ben has run away from the circus where he was mistreated and Bab and Betty find him and his dog living in the carriage house. Their mother takes him in and gives him a job. Together the children learn lessons about life and faith. Jack and Jill and jack have a nasty accident while sledging and suffer a yearlong convalescence. They are close friends despite vastly different social circumstances, and they learn patience and kindness along the way.

1134 pages, Hardcover

First published May 5, 2013

About the author

Louisa May Alcott was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet best known for writing the novel Little Women (1868) and its sequels Good Wives (1869), Little Men (1871) and Jo's Boys (1886). Raised in New England by her transcendentalist parents, Abigail May Alcott and Amos Bronson Alcott, she grew up among many well-known intellectuals of the day, including Margaret Fuller, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry David Thoreau, and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
Alcott's family suffered from financial difficulties, and while she worked to help support the family from an early age, she also sought an outlet in writing. She began to receive critical success for her writing in the 1860s. Early in her career, she sometimes used pen names such as A.M. Barnard, under which she wrote lurid short stories and sensation novels for adults that focused on passion and revenge.
Published in 1868, Little Women is set in the Alcott family home, Orchard House, in Concord, Massachusetts, and is loosely based on Alcott's childhood experiences with her three sisters, Abigail May Alcott Nieriker, Elizabeth Sewall Alcott, and Anna Bronson Alcott Pratt. The novel was well-received at the time and is still popular today among both children and adults. It has been adapted for stage plays, films, and television many times.
Alcott was an abolitionist and a feminist and remained unmarried throughout her life. She also spent her life active in reform movements such as temperance and women's suffrage. She died from a stroke in Boston on March 6, 1888, just two days after her father's death.

Reviews

[Marmee Reads · Rating 4 out of 5]

I'm a better person for spending a few days with Polly, the Old Fashioned Girl!