nuove Storie di Natale: Racconti inediti (Père Lachaise - Classici)

by Louisa May Alcott

Dopo il clamoroso successo del primo volume, undici nuovi racconti inediti dell’autrice di Piccole donne, amata da generazioni di lettrici e di lettori, una delle più originali e rivoluzionarie scrittrici di sempreUna rarissima perla letteraria, una scoperta assolutamente straordinariaAltri undici racconti, tutti finora inediti in Italia, tratti dal secondo volume della raccolta Lulu’s Library, una serie di storie per bambini scritte da Louisa May Alcott, l’autrice di Piccole donne, tra il 1885 e il 1887. Nate come favole della buonanotte per la nipotina, queste storie ebbero poi così tanto successo tra la bambina e i suoi amici che l’autrice decise di farne un «Non avendo nient’altro da regalare quest’anno, le ho raccolte in un solo volume come dono di Natale». Ne emerge, come nella sua saga più celebre, un insieme di semplicità e di ricchezza di temi, un precorrere i tempi, anche politicamente, una capacità straordinaria di narrare e di trasmettere valori che al suo tempo erano assolutamente rivoluzionari. Un libro per bambini ma anche per genitori, e per chiunque voglia esplorare il mondo straordinario di una scrittrice che ancora oggi, dopo quasi due secoli, non cessa di stupirci e affascinarci.

184 pages, Kindle Edition

Published November 16, 2021

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.