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Louisa May Alcott (Author)
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Book Description

Publication Date: December 1, 1996
Known for her beloved children's classics, Louisa May Alcott's true zeal was for writing sensational literature-stories and novels that she chose to have published anonymously or under the pseudonym A.M. Barnard. Her favorite of these works was A Modern Mephistophelles, which appeared anonymously in 1877.

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Alcott's varied writings are lately receiving revived attention: this tale of lust and deception will satisfy any who wants a novel of psychological tension and high drama, as it explores a poor failing writer's price for giving his devotion to another. A complex, involving plot. --Midwest Book Review

About the Author

LOUISA MAY ALCOTT was born on November 29, 1832, in Germantown, Pennsylvania and grew up in Concord, Massachusetts. Educated by her father until she was sixteen, she later studied under Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Theodore Parker. A prolific writer, her most famous work, Little Women, is a timeless American classic.

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  • Audio Cassette
  • Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.; Unabridged library edition (December 1, 1996)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0786110414
  • ISBN-13: 978-0786110414
  • Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 6.9 x 1.3 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #8,108,858 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Louisa May Alcott
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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5.0 out of 5 stars Chilling... Beautiful... Evocative, January 26, 1998
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This review is from: A Modern Mephistopheles (Paperback)
I read Little Women in school and laughed all the way through it! I promised myself that I would never read Alcott's work again. But when I came across this book, I decided to give it a chance. This is NOT Little Women. This is an insightful, harrowing novel that is by no means for children. This book is a treasure! One you will want to read again and again!
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3.0 out of 5 stars Hardly Devilish at All, June 22, 2004
This review is from: A Modern Mephistopheles (Paperback)
"A Modern Mephistopheles" is supposedly meant to be shocking and harrowing. One reason, because it was written by Louisa May Alcott, best known for docile moral tales such as "Little Women". One other reason, is because it contains descriptions of drug use and nefarious affairs. Yet there is little shocking about "A Modern Mephistopheles" except for how disappointing it truly is.

I was intrigued by this novel through the desciption given on the back. It seemed to be, and is, a departure from what we've known from Alcott. It is a tale of a failed poet Felix Canaris, who mysteriously takes up with Jasper Helwyze (nice play on a name) and is a "modern" mephistopheles because the poet has made a deal with the "devil". Canaris eventually marries and Helwyze even has control over his wife. In the end they want to escape his clutches, but it may be too late for them to be saved.

"A Modern Mephistopheles" is a poorly written update of "Faust" in disguise as a mysterious and shocking thriller. The characters are poorly written and developed. One never feels any connection with the four main characters; that of the two men and the ladies who inhabit their world. Helwyze never seems devilish enough even if he "ruins" the life of Canaris and his wife Gladys. It is filled with quotes from various sources (that are never given) that don't allow Alcott's story to speak for itself. Perhaps the reason that it can't speak for itself is because it is trying to hard to be "Faust"; since the main characters directly refer to this masterpiece several times. One is much better off reading the original than settling for this less-than-second-best remake.

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