Behind a Mask: A Short Story Collection (Dover Thrift Editions)
Dover Publications
ISBN13:
9780486842905
$10.10
The author of Little Women? and other beloved classics, Louisa May Alcott grew up in a community of New England transcendentalists that included Thoreau and Emerson. Because her learned but impractical father was a poor provider, she supported her family by writing magazine stories that were often published anonymously. This collection reveals the "other" Alcott, featuring "Behind a Mask" and "Pauline's Passion and Punishment," thrilling tales of seduction, betrayal, and murder that strike a markedly different tone and characterization from Alcott's best-known work. Other selections include two pieces from Hospital Sketches, the author's fictionalized accounts of her Civil War nursing experiences; "My Contraband," a tale of vengeance involving a Civil War nurse, her Confederate patient, and his former slave; "Happy Women," concerning four "spinsters" with a positive attitude toward their marital status; and "How I Went Out to Service," an autobiographical sketch of a young woman's pursuit of financial independence.
- | Author: Louisa May Alcott
- | Publisher: Dover Publications
- | Publication Date: March 18, 2020
- | Number of Pages: 208 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Paperback
- | ISBN-10: 0486842908
- | ISBN-13: 9780486842905
- Author:
- Louisa May Alcott
- Publisher:
- Dover Publications
- Publication Date:
- March 18, 2020
- Number of pages:
- 208 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Paperback
- ISBN-10:
- 0486842908
- ISBN-13:
- 9780486842905