Louisa May Alcott: The Complete Novels (The Giants of Literature - Book 15)
Complete Novels of Domestic Realism, Female Self-Making, and Social ReformBy Louisa May Alcott
Length141h 23m
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Louisa May Alcott: The Complete Novels gathers the fiction of one of nineteenth-century America's most versatile and enduring writers. Best known for Little Women, Alcott also produced ambitious domestic novels, moral romances, sensational thrillers, and works for younger readers, balancing sentimental conventions with psychological acuity, social criticism, and energetic narrative invention. Across these novels, questions of female independence, authorship, work, family, class, education, and ethical self-fashioning recur within the changing literary culture of the American Renaissance and the expanding market for women's fiction. Read together, the collection reveals both the continuity of Alcott's themes and the remarkable range concealed by her reputation as merely a children's author. Daughter of the transcendentalist educator and philosopher Bronson Alcott, Louisa May Alcott grew up amid intellectual experiment, reformist ideals, financial insecurity, and the practical demands of supporting her family. Her experiences as a teacher, governess, Civil War nurse, and professional writer shaped her unusually direct understanding of labor, gendered limitation, and public authorship. Writing both serious fiction and commercially successful sensational tales, sometimes under the pseudonym A. M. Barnard, she negotiated artistic ambition with the necessities of the literary marketplace. This volume is recommended to readers seeking more than the familiar world of the March family: it presents Alcott as a disciplined, inventive, and historically significant professional writer. Students of American literature, women's writing, the history of publishing, and nineteenth-century popular culture will find an especially valuable panorama, while general readers can enjoy the emotional immediacy, moral complexity, and narrative vitality that continue to give her fiction its uncommon appeal.
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GenreLiterary Classics
Length141 hrs 23 mins
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Publish dateMay 27, 2022
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Dr. Elsie Inglis (Annotated)
26CHAPTER VI A FIRE BRAND
2Introduction:: Louisa May Alcott: Her Life, Letters, and Journals
27CHAPTER VII NAUGHTY NAN
3Louisa May Alcott: Her Life, Letters, and Journals (pt. 1)
28CHAPTER VIII PRANKS AND PLAYS
4Louisa May Alcott: Her Life, Letters, and Journals (pt. 2)
29CHAPTER IX DAISY'S BALL
5Louisa May Alcott: Her Life, Letters, and Journals (pt. 3)
30CHAPTER X HOME AGAIN
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6Louisa May Alcott: Her Life, Letters, and Journals (pt. 4)
31CHAPTER XI UNCLE TEDDY
7Louisa May Alcott: Her Life, Letters, and Journals (pt. 5)
32CHAPTER XII HUCKLEBERRIES
8Novels:
33CHAPTER XIII GOLDILOCKS
9Little Women (pt. 1)
34CHAPTER XIV DAMON AND PYTHIAS
10Little Women (pt. 2)
35CHAPTER XV IN THE WILLOW
11Little Women (pt. 3)
36CHAPTER XVI TAMING THE COLT
12Little Women (pt. 4)
37CHAPTER XVII COMPOSITION DAY
13Good Wives
38CHAPTER XVIII CROPS
14The Second Part (pt. 1)
39CHAPTER XIX JOHN BROOKE
15The Second Part (pt. 2)
40CHAPTER XX ROUND THE FIRE
16The Second Part (pt. 3)
41CHAPTER XXI THANKSGIVING
17The Second Part (pt. 4)
42Jo’s Boys
18The Second Part (pt. 5)
43Chapter 1. TEN YEARS LATER
19Little Men
44Chapter 2. PARNASSUS
20DEDICATION
45Chapter 3. JO'S LAST SCRAPE
21CHAPTER I NAT
46Chapter 4. DAN
22CHAPTER II THE BOYS
47Chapter 5. VACATION
23CHAPTER III SUNDAY
48Chapter 6. LAST WORDS
24CHAPTER IV STEPPING-STONES
49Chapter 7. THE LION AND THE LAMB
25CHAPTER V PATTYPANS
50Chapter 8. JOSIE PLAYS MERMAID
Through Her Eyes: 20 Women's Narratives of the Civil WarLouisa May Alcott, Eliza Frances Andrews, Susie King Taylor, William E. Barton, Mary Rhodes Waring Henagan, Susan R. Jervey, Charlotte St. J. Ravenel, Myrta Lockett Avary, Mary Ann Loughborough, Sarah Morgan Dawson, Sara Agnes Rice Pryor, Mary Boykin Chesnut, Elizabeth Bacon Custer, Mary Ann Harris Gay, Parthenia Antoinette Hague, George Barton, Fannie A. Beers, Maud E. Morrow, Phoebe Yates Pember, Sarah Ellen Blackwell, S. Emma E. Edmonds, Tillie Pierce Alleman199h 12m$0.99
History of the Civil War: 15 Essential BooksLouisa May Alcott, Ulysses S. Grant, James Ford Rhodes, Jefferson Davis, Frank H. Alfriend, John Torrey Morse, John Alexander Logan, Thomas Elbert Vineyard, Ephraim Douglass Adams, John Esten Cooke, William Tecumseh Sherman, John D. Billings, Charles W. Reed, James Madison Page, Heros von Borcke, Mary Boykin Chesnut343h 19m$0.99
ANGELS OR DEMONS - 50 Feminist Classics in One VolumeLouisa May Alcott, Kate Chopin, Fanny Burney, Mary Wollstonecraft, Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Rebecca Harding Davis, Henry James, Leo Tolstoy, Thomas Hardy, Elizabeth Gaskell, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Henrik Ibsen, Grant Allen, Ethel Sybil Turner, Elizabeth Burgoyne Corbett, H. G. Wells, Gene Stratton-Porter, Willa Cather, Edith Wharton, Theodore Dreiser, Ada Cambridge, Mary Johnston, Marietta Holley, Elia Wilkinson Peattie, Virginia Woolf, Christopher Morley, Zona Gale, Elizabeth von Arnim, Edna Ferber, Rebecca Deming Moore, Margaret Oliphant, Sinclair Lewis, D. H. Lawrence, Margaret Deland, Nikolai Leskov607h 8m$0.99 · $0.00
Big Book of Christmas TalesLouisa May Alcott, Mark Twain, O. Henry, Hans Christian Andersen, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Selma Lagerlöf, Elizabeth Harrison, Beatrix Potter, Susan Coolidge, Anthony Trollope, George MacDonald, Brothers Grimm, L. Frank Baum, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Leo Tolstoy, E. T. A. Hoffmann, Charles Dickens, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Thomas Hardy, Kate Douglas Wiggin, Booker T. Washington, Anton Chekhov, Armando Palacio Valdés, Alphonse Daudet, Benito Pérez Galdós, Marcel Prévost, Edgar Wallace, Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Guy de Maupassant, Saki, Elizabeth Gaskell, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Arthur Conan Doyle259h 54m$0.99 · $0.00
Aunt Jo's Scrap Bag (Vol. 1-6) (Annotated)Louisa May Alcott29h 28m$2 · $0.00
A Country Christmas & Other Christmas Stories by Louisa May Alcott (Annotated)Louisa May Alcott8h 47m$2 · $0.00
All the 4 Little Women Books: Little Women, Good Wives, Little Men, Jo's Boys (Annotated)Louisa May Alcott43h 29m$2 · $0.00
Little Men: Life at Plumfield with Jo's Boys & A Sequel - Jo's Boys and How They Turned Out (Children's Classics Series - Illustrated Edition) (Annotated)Louisa May Alcott23h 9m$2 · $0.00
Little Men - Unabridged with the original illustrations by Reginald B. Birch (includes Good Wives) (Annotated)Louisa May Alcott12h 32m$2 · $0.00
Die schönsten Weihnachtsgeschichten von Louisa May Alcott (Kommentiert)Louisa May Alcott33h 26m$2 · $0.00
Mujercitas (Anotado)Louisa May Alcott10h 44m$2 · $0.00
Little Women (Annotated)Louisa May Alcott22h 1m$2 · $0.00
Little Women (Book 1-4: With Original Illustration) (Annotated)Louisa May Alcott43h 33m$2 · $0.00
The Abbot's Ghost (Annotated)Louisa May Alcott4h 34m$2 · $0.00
The Mysterious Key and What It Opened (Unabridged) (Annotated)Louisa May Alcott3h 44m$2 · $0.00
Jo's Boys and How They Turned Out: A Sequel to "Little Men" (Unabridged) (Annotated)Louisa May Alcott12h 15m$2 · $0.00
Jack and Jill (Children's Classic) (Annotated)Louisa May Alcott11h 34m$2 · $0.00
A Christmas Dream & Other Christmas Stories by Louisa May Alcott (Annotated)Louisa May Alcott6h 41m$2 · $0.00
The Collected Works of Louisa May Alcott (Illustrated Edition) (Annotated)Louisa May Alcott226h 22m$2 · $0.00
The Gulag Archipelago Volume 3Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn21h 56m$46 · $0.00
Sherlock Holmes: The Ultimate CollectionArthur Conan Doyle59h 49m$5 · $0.00
The Complete Works of Fyodor Dostoyevsky: Novels, Short Stories and Autobiographical WritingsFyodor Dostoyevsky270h 59m$2 · $0.00
The Bark Canoes and Skin Boats of North America (Annotated)Howard Irving Chapelle, Tappan Adney13h 9m$0.99 · $0.00
Charles Dickens: Complete Works (Annotated)Charles Dickens818h 55m$0.99 · $0.00
The Complete Novels of Jane Austen & Brontë Sisters (Annotated)Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, Anne Brontë204h 15m$0.99 · $0.00
The Complete Works: Charlotte, Emily, Anne, Patrick & Branwell BrontëCharlotte Brontë, Anne Brontë, Emily Brontë138h 12m$1 · $0.00
The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (Annotated)Oscar Wilde126h 19m$2 · $0.00
L. M. Montgomery – Premium Collection: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry & MemoirsLucy Maud Montgomery155h 1m$2 · $0.00
The Complete Works of the Brontë Family Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, Anne Brontë140h 13m$2 · $0.00
MARK TWAIN: 12 Novels, 195 Short Stories, Autobiography, 10 Travel Books, 160+ Essays & Speeches (Illustrated)Mark Twain415h 9m5.0 (2)$2 · $0.00
This Side of Paradise - The Original 1920 Edition (Annotated)F. Scott Fitzgerald11h 30m$2 · $0.00
The Great Gatsby: Original 1925 Edition (An F. Scott Fitzgerald Classic NovelFrancis Scott Fitzgerald4h 45m$18 · $0.00
The Complete Works: Novels, Short Stories, Plays, Articles, Essays, Travel Sketches and Memoirs (Annotated)Anthony Trollope1096h 4m$0.99 · $0.00
Ivanhoe (Annotated)Walter Scott22h 52m$2 · $0.00
The Complete Works of G. K. Chesterton (Annotated)G. K. Chesterton421h 37m$1.99 · $0.00
All NovelsGeorge Orwell53h 48m$10 · $0.00
The Complete Works of TolstoyLeo Tolstoy412h 44m$1 · $0.00
The Complete Works of Louisa May Alcott (Annotated)Louisa May Alcott226h 24m$0.99 · $0.00
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