Louisa May Alcott tells us through a more famous character, "I want to do something splendid... something heroic or wonderful that won't be forgotten after I'm dead...I think I shall write books." And that's what she did! Much remembered for her most famous novel, Little Women, Alcott left us a tremendous legacy. While a nurse, housekeeper, teacher, abolitionist and a first-wave feminist, Alcott found the time and passion to produce more than 30 novels and more than a hundred short stories with the most varied themes. For this collection were selected seven classic short stories of this talented author, a reading that will surely please longtime admirers of her work and those who will have their first contact with Louisa May Alcott. Good reading! A Modern Cinderella My Red Cap A Christmas Dream, and How it Came to Be True An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving Aunt Kipp Rosy's Journey The Brothers

The US Civil War (1861–1865) still serves as one of the milestones in American literary history, commonly representing the dividing line in survey courses and reference works on 19th-century American literature. Through seven short stories selected by the critic August Nemo you will be able to understand the different nuances of this historical moment: - An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce - The Veteran by Stephen Crane - The Story of a Year by Henry James - The Locket by Kate Chopin - The Brothers by Louisa May Alcott - The Namesake by Willa Cather - The Burial of the Guns by Thomas Nelson Page The Burial of the Guns by Thomas Nelson Page

The air cools down and the days begin to shorten; the leaves changing color put us in contact with the passing of time in a visible way. The autumn has served as inspiration for several writers that you confer in this volume, through great seven short stories. This book contains: - One Autumn Night by Maxim Gorky. - The purloined Letter - Edgar Allan Poe. - Domestic Peace by Honore de Balzac. - A Painful Case by James Joyce. - An Honest Thief by Fyodor Dostoevsky. - An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving by Louisa May Alcott. - The Elementary Spirit by E. T. A. Hoffman.

Thanksgiving began as a day of giving thanks and sacrifice for the blessing of the harvest and of the preceding year. Although Thanksgiving has historical roots in religious and cultural traditions, it has long been celebrated as a secular holiday as well. Being the holiday that marks the opening of the Holiday Season, Thanksgiving is an important part of the identity and culture of North America. Have fun with seven short stories selected by the critic August Nemo that bring all the atmosphere of union and gratitude of this date: - An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving by Louisa May Alcott - Thankful by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman - Turkeys Turning The Tables by William Dean Howells - How We Kept Thanksgiving at Oldtown by Harriet Beecher Stowe - Two Thanksgiving Day Gentlemen by O. Henry - Three Thanksgiving Kisses by Edward Payson Roe - The First Thanksgiving by Albert F. Blaisdell & Francis K. Ball

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This book contains 350 short stories from 50 classic, prize-winning and noteworthy authors. Wisely chosen by the literary critic August Nemo for the book series 7 Best Short Stories, this omnibus contains the stories of the following writers: - H.P. Lovecraft, - Edgar Allan Poe, - Arthur Conan Doyle, - Katherine Mansfield, - Jack London, - Guy de Maupassant, - Virginia Woolf, F. - Scott Fitzgerald, - Edith Wharton, - Stephen Crane, - Susan Glaspell, - Kate Chopin, - Laura E. Richards, - Alice Dunbar-Nelson, - Louisa May Alcott, - Hans Christian Andersen, - Charles Dickens, - Nathaniel Hawthorne, - Henry James, - Mark Twain, - Charlotte Perkins, - Elizabeth Gaskell, - Herman Melville, - James Joyce, - Leo Tolstoy, - Nikolai Gogol, - Anton Chekhov, - Fyodor Dostoevsky, - Maxim Gorky, - Leonid Andreyev, - Ivan Turgenev, - Joseph Conrad, - Aleksander Pushkin, - Robert Louis Stevenson, - Robert E. Howard, - G. K. Chesterton, - Edgar Wallace, - Arthur Machen, - Ambrose Bierce, - Talbot Mundy, - Abraham Merritt, - Zane Grey, - Edgar Rice Burroughs, - Oscar Wilde, - Rudyard Kipling, - E.T.A. Hoffman, - Bram Stoker, - H.G. Wells, - Franz Kafta - Washington Irving.

This book contains 70 short stories from 10 classic, prize-winning and noteworthy authors. The stories were carefully selected by the critic August Nemo, in a collection that will please the literature lovers. For more exciting titles, be sure to check out our 7 Best Short Stories and Essential Novelists collections. This book contains: - F. Scott FitzgeraldThe Diamond as Big as the Ritz The Jelly-Bean May Day The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Bernice Bobs Her Hair Head and Shoulders The Cut-Glass Bowl - Edith Wharton:The Triumph of Night The Pelican The Fullness Of Life April Showers A Journey Afterward Xingu - Stephen Crane:A Dark Brown Dog An Experiment in Misery The Veteran Four Men in a Cave A Tent in Agony The Snake Upturned Face - Susan Glaspell:His Smile "Government Goat" A Jury of Her Peers The Anarchist: His Dog "One of Those Impossible Americans" At Twilight From A to Z - Kate Chopin:A Respectable Woman A Pair of Silk Stockings A Matter of Prejudice A December Day in Dixie At the 'Cadian Ball The Storm Désirée's Baby - Laura E. Richards :Maine to the Rescue The Coming of the King The Golden Windows The Shed Chamber The Green Satin Gown The Scarlet Leaves Don Alonzo - Alice Dunbar Nelson:A Carnival Jangle Little Miss Sophie La Juanita The Praline Woman Sister Josepha Mr. Baptiste M'sieu Fortier's Violin - Louisa May Alcott:A Modern Cinderella My Red Cap A Christmas Dream, and How it Came to Be True An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving Aunt Kipp Rosy's Journey The Brothers - Hans Christian Andersen:The Little Mermaid Brave Tin Soldier The Princess and the Pea The Goloshes of Fortune The Emperor's New Clothes The Last Dream of Old Oak Little Tiny or Thumbelina - Charles Dickens:A Child's Dream of a Star Boots at the Holly-Tree Inn Nobody's Story The Child's Story The Magic Fishbone What Christmas is As We Grow Older The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain

This collection of nineteenth-century reviews provides a wealth of information for scholars interested in Alcott (increasing the number of indexed reviews almost tenfold) but also insight into the ways in which reading audiences were constructed in the nineteenth-century United States. The reviews provide a window on to nineteenth-century attitudes toward popular fiction and toward women writers. The author of the novels and of sensational tales, of travel writing and of temperance tracts, Alcott was both highly popular and highly respected. Her works were reviewed not just in magazines for children, but also in the most prestigious literary journals of the day.