$30.24
- Hardcover
816 pages
- Release Date
19 November 2014
Summary
Puffin in Bloom: An all-new line of classics, gorgeously illustrated by renowned stationery brand Rifle Paper Co.’s lead artist, Anna Bond.
Louisa May Alcott’s classic tale of four sisters in a deluxe hardcover edition, with beautiful cover illustrations by Anna Bond, the artist behind world-renowned stationery brand Rifle Paper Co.
Grown-up Meg, tomboyish Jo, timid Beth, and precocious Amy. The four March sisters couldn’t be more different. But with their father away at war, …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780147514011 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0147514010 |
| Author: | Louisa May Alcott |
| Publisher: | Penguin Random House Children's UK |
| Imprint: | Puffin Classics |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 816 |
| Release Date: | 19 November 2014 |
| Weight: | 696g |
| Dimensions: | 63mm x 136mm x 186mm |
| Series: | Puffin in Bloom |
| Audience Age: | 9-12 |
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“The American female myth.” -Madelon Bedell
“The American female myth.”
—Madelon Bedell
Louisa May Alcott
Louisa May Alcott was born in Germantown, Pennsylvania, in 1832. She was the second of four daughters of Abigail May Alcott and Bronson Alcott, a prominent Transcendentalist thinker and social reformer. Raised in Concord, Massachusetts, and educated by her father, Alcott was early influenced by the great men of his circle, including Emerson, Hawthorne, Theodore Parker, and Thoreau.
From a young age, Louisa worked at various tasks to help support her family, including sewing, teaching, domestic service, and writing. In 1862, she volunteered as an army nurse in a Union hospital during the Civil War, an experience that provided material for her first successful book, Hospital Sketches (1863). Between 1863 and 1869, she published several anonymous and pseudonymous Gothic romances and thrillers.
Fame arrived with the publication of Little Women (1868-69), a novel based on the childhood adventures of the four Alcott sisters. The book received immense popular acclaim, bringing her financial security and the conviction to continue her writing career. Following the success of Little Women, she published An Old-Fashioned Girl (1870), Little Men (1871), Eight Cousins (1875), Rose in Bloom (1876), and Jo’s Boys (1886), among other books for children. She also wrote two adult novels, Moods (1864) and Work (1873).
An active participant in the women’s suffrage and temperance movements during the last decade of her life, Alcott died in Boston in 1888, on the same day her father was buried.
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