Louisa May Alcott'S: Fairy Tales Fantasy Stories [Paperback]

Daniel Shealy (Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 10, 1992

A scholarly collection of the fairy tales and fantasy stories of Louisa May Alcott. A critical introduction examines the works and places them in the context of American fantasy.

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 12 and up
  
• Paperback: 432 pages
• Publisher: Univ Tennessee Press; 1st edition (November 10, 1992)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0870497588
• ISBN-13: 978-0870497582
• Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 6.2 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #641,920 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Louisa May Alcott was both an abolitionist and a feminist. She is best known for Little Women (1868), a semi-autobiographical account of her childhood years with her sisters in Concord, Massachusetts. Alcott, unlike Jo, never married: "... because I have fallen in love with so many pretty girls and never once the least bit with any man." She was an advocate of women's suffrage and was the first woman to register to vote in Concord, Massachusetts.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Alcott wrote fantasy, too!, April 2, 2001

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This review is from: Louisa May Alcott'S: Fairy Tales Fantasy Stories (Paperback)

This book contains all of Alcott's fantasy stories and fairy tales, including those in her book Flower Fables. Some of the stories are sweet and have happy endings; others have sad endings. A few of them are a touch preachy. I don't know if children today would really enjoy these stories. Little girls might. The language is, of course, rather old-fashioned and the morals blatant. I think the stories would be of more interest to Alcott scholars or collectors who want to read everything she ever wrote. Still, the stories show some imagination and aren't objectionable in any way.