Louisa May Alcott. Many more stories than Little Women

Louisa May Alcott passed away on a day like today in the 1888 Boston two days after the death of his father. This American writer is one of the great names of the youth literature of all times. His most universally known novel is Little Women, but his production was very extensive and he played other genres. These are some of the many more stories which he also wrote, although they were overshadowed by the adventures of Jo March and his sisters. 

Louisa May Alcott

His father rubbed shoulders with friends like Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau, so Louisa couldn't have had better literary references around. But her family did not live in abundance and she had to work in different jobs from a very young age until he could begin to live on what he wrote.

And he did it from two different facets of creation: one was aimed at young women and highlighted the traditional values, as it happens in Little Women o Jo's Boys; and the other, more adult, included a series of novels romantic type that he published with him pseudonym of AN Barnhard, in addition to a serious work for adults called A modern Mephistopheles (1875)

It was also a great defender of women's rights and towards the end of his life he also became abolitionist. These are 7 of his novels:

The old-fashioned girl

Polly Milton a girl field fourteen years old, she goes to the city to spend a season with her friend Fanny shaw. There Polly is very impressed by how different Fanny's life is from hers, since Fanny is always fashionable and likes to flirt with young people. Polly will meet people her age, attend theater evenings, and return home thinking that life in the city is nice, but it's not everything.

Six years later Polly go back to the city to stay at the house of the Mrs. Mills as a music teacher. Then, Tom , Fanny's brother is engaged with a very unfriendly and ambitious young woman. Fanny likes a young man named Sydney, who is also attracted to Polly, but Who does Polly really love?

Behind the mask

We are in England in 1866. The young and demure Jean muir arrives at the aristocratic mansion of the Coventry to work as governess. Thanks to his cunning and multiple skills, after just one day's work manages to win affection full Mrs. Coventry, his daughter Bella, the youngest son, Edward, and sir John, the old and wealthy uncle.
But the same is not the case with Gerald, the older brother, and Lucia, his cousinWho they distrust the governess and they begin to spy on their steps. However, Jean's goal is to secure a wealthy and wealthy husband, and she will not hesitate to use all the female weapons at her disposal as masks to hide behind to achieve this.

Under the lilacs

Juvenile novel where the adventures of the child are narrated Ben brown when, when moving away from the circus where he worked, with Sancho, your dog trained, meet some little sisters that play under the lilacs. Ben will work as a coachman and it will be done friend of the localsas he hopes his father will come back for him. While he will live all kinds of adventures.

Little men

This is the sequel to Little Women who tells us what happens when Jo Baher, single March, and her husband open a home to educate and care for young boys. These are a group of somewhat rowdy but kindhearted boys who positively influence the life of the entire Baher family, including their two young children.

So we have French, a 17-year-old German gentleman, Emil, called "The Commodore" for his passion for seafaring, Middle-Brooke, smart and cheerful, Rob, the restless, Thick, The Hunchback, Dolly, the stutterer, the cunning and greedy Jacks, Ned Barullo Bakerbully and reckless, George, the zampabollos, Billy, the innocent, Tommy, the mischievous, the ragged and newcomer Nat, who will later be joined by the rough and elusive Then. They all live at Plumfield School and Jo will take care of turning them into men of profit.

Eight cousins

This is another of the most recognized novels of Alcott and is also known as Youth. This is the story of the young woman Rose Campbell, who returns home after a two-year trip around the world with his uncle Alec and his maid Phebe. But upon his return he finds that it is possessor of a great fortune.

So suddenly she finds herself surrounded by a large number of admirers and suitors. Rosa will have to decide what will your future be and choose which of her friends and cousins ​​are more interested in her and not in her fortune.

Little mermaids

This is one selection of fantastic tales where Alcott shows us that she was also a pioneer and great author of fairy tales and goths. In these the protagonists are newts, undines and nereids and other creatures of the sea. For example, we have stories like Ariel, Rizo, the sea nymph: Fancy's little friend.

Almost all share elements of the same scene as a island, a lighthouse, a hotel or beach villas, probably inspired by nonquitt, where Alcott vacationed on the New England coast.

A nurse's tale

This story is told kate snow, a nurse (as was the author herself) who is hired to take care of Elinor, the youngest daughter of the Carruth family, who suffers from a strange mental illness. From the first moment Kate will try to understand why the young man Robert steele, supposed friend of the family, maintains a absolute control especially what happens at the Carruth house.

In this authentic labyrinth of deceptions, mysteries and passions that has a surprising ending. We could say that it is a novel by quasi-police intrigue about the curse of a race and is very reminiscent in tone and background of Wilkie Collins, the Brontë sisters or Jane Austen.


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