A Modern Cinderella - Alcott, Louisa May

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Résumé :
Louisa May Alcott's A Modern Cinderella is an early collection of stories from the beloved author of Little Women, showing her gift for domestic fiction, moral feeling, and quietly independent young women. The title story, first published in The Atlantic Monthly in October 1860, reimagines the Cinderella pattern in a New England household, replacing castles and fairy magic with family duty, patience, kindness, and the dignity of ordinary work. Long before Little Women made Alcott famous, these stories already display her interest in girls and women who meet hardship with intelligence, generosity, and moral courage. Collected with Debby's Debut, Brothers, and Nelly's Hospital, A Modern Cinderella offers a revealing look at Alcott's early fiction and the themes that would later define her career. Here are young women learning how to judge character, resist vanity, value useful work, and find strength in affection, conscience, and self-respect. This SMK Books edition presents a classic collection for readers of Louisa May Alcott, nineteenth-century American fiction, women's domestic fiction, classic short stories, moral fiction, and early American literature....

Biographie:
Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888) var en amerikansk forfatter og poet, mest kjent for romanen Sm? kvinner, inspirert av hennes egen oppvekst med tre s?stre i New England. Som datter av den transcendentalistiske l?reren Amos Bronson Alcott og venn av familiene Emerson og Thoreau vokste Alcott opp i et intellektuelt milj? som sterkt preget hennes litter?re stemme. Hun var ogs? sykepleier under den amerikanske borgerkrigen, og hennes verk kjennetegnes av varme skildringer av familieliv, moralske l?repunkter og sterke kvinnelige heltinner....

Sommaire:
Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888) was an American novelist, short story writer, reform-minded thinker, and one of the most enduring authors of nineteenth-century American literature. Born in Pennsylvania and raised largely in Massachusetts, Alcott grew up in a household shaped by Transcendentalist ideas, educational experiment, reform politics, and financial instability. Her father, Amos Bronson Alcott, was a philosopher and educator, and the family's circle included Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Margaret Fuller, and other major figures of New England intellectual life.Alcott began writing early and worked to help support her family, producing stories, sketches, thrillers, children's fiction, and domestic fiction before achieving lasting fame with Little Women in 1868. Her work often centres on family life, women's labour, moral independence, self-discipline, education, and the difficult balance between duty and personal desire. Though best known for the March family novels, Alcott also wrote sensation fiction under pseudonyms and produced a wide range of stories that reveal her energy, practicality, humour, and sympathy for young women trying to find a useful and honourable place in the world....