May Flowers, Moods, Mountain Laurel and Maidenhair

By Louisa May Alcott

This book is a collection of three works by famous author Louisa May Alcott.

Mayflowers :

This short story by famous writer Louisa May Alcott, the author of Little Women, tells the tale of young girls growing up in Victorian times. They will learn than kindness is always rewarding, both to the giver and the receiver.

Moods :

Moods was Louisa May Alcott's first novel published under her own name in 1864, four years before her breakout novel Little Women.

The story revolves around a “little woman”, an abolitionist spinster and a fallen Cuban beauty, their lives intersecting in Alcott’s first major depiction of the “woman problem.”

Mountain-Laurel and Maidenhair :

Mountain-Laurel and Maidenhair is a1887 novella by the famed author of Little Women, Louisa May Alcott.

Two young girls from different backgrounds come together to form a close bond over a common love they share. Their story is presented in two parts: Mountain-Laurel and Maidenhair.

This edition will please every lover of classic literature and of strong feminine writers.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Orpheus Editions
• Release date: Mar 18, 2020
• ISBN: 9788835390664

Louisa May Alcott

Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888) was an American novelist, poet, and short story writer. Born in Philadelphia to a family of transcendentalists—her parents were friends with Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry David Thoreau—Alcott was raised in Massachusetts. She worked from a young age as a teacher, seamstress, and domestic worker in order to alleviate her family’s difficult financial situation. These experiences helped to guide her as a professional writer, just as her family’s background in education reform, social work, and abolition—their home was a safe house for escaped slaves on the Underground Railroad—aided her development as an early feminist and staunch abolitionist. Her career began as a writer for the Atlantic Monthly in 1860, took a brief pause while she served as a nurse in a Georgetown Hospital for wounded Union soldiers during the Civil War, and truly flourished with the 1868 and 1869 publications of parts one and two of Little Women. The first installment of her acclaimed and immensely popular “March Family Saga” has since become a classic of American literature and has been adapted countless times for the theater, film, and television. Alcott was a prolific writer throughout her lifetime, with dozens of novels, short stories, and novelettes published under her name, as the pseudonym A.M. Barnard, and anonymously.

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