Louisa May Alcott: Selected Fiction
- ISBN-10
- 0820323136
- ISBN-13
- 9780820323138
- Series
- Louisa May Alcott
- Category
- Fiction
- Pages
- 478
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1990
- Authors
- Louisa May Alcott, Daniel Shealy, Madeleine B. Stern
Description
A selection of Louisa May Alcott's many creative forays into the genres of romanticism, Gothicism, and realism. Written between 1852 and 1888, these works are from all phases of Alcott's life, and were chosen to show Alcott at her writing best.
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