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Selected Essays of Louisa May Alcott
Louisa May Alcott is best known as the author of Little Women. But she was also a noted essayist who wrote on a wide range of subjects, including her father’s failed utopian commune, life as a Civil War nurse and her experience as a young woman sent to work in service to alleviate her family’s poverty. Blending gentle satire with reportage and emotive biography, A Strange Life – edited by Liz Rosenberg and with a preface by Jane Smiley – shows Alcott to be one of the sharpest wits in American literature.
‘In bringing together opinion pieces, travelogues and personal snippets, this pocket-sized volume opens fascinating windows into Alcott’s mind.’ Times Literary Supplement
‘A Strange Life is a thorough pleasure. Modest in size and design – it’ll fit in a pocket – the book puts emphasis where it belongs: on the vigorous prose of one of America’s most charming and memorable stylists.’ Wall Street Journal
‘Filled with scintillating prose and amusing stories, this persuasively makes the case that Alcott’s essays have been unjustly overlooked.’ Publishers Weekly
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