Obtain Three Proverb Stories: Kittys Class Day; Aunt Kipp; Psyches Art (1878) Showcased By Louisa May Alcott Issued As Version
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Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hardtofind books with something of interest for everyone I liked some of these stories better than others, but alas, I can't say I loved any of them.
They are highly moral but only a little interesting, My favorites were "A Country Christmas" and "My Red Cap, "
The last story, a New Year story, "What the Bells Saw and Said," is less a story and more a moral extemporizing on society's failings in.
It's always
interesting to me that many of the same problems we worry about now were also lamentedyears ago.
Such a lovely writing style, . . simple and sweet. No one writes like her, I love this book! A collection of fun short stories with a few twists, A good little set of moral stories, I've had this on my "to read" pile for ages, I don't know why I put off reading it for so long! This was a breath of fresh air! No one writes like this any more! The language was beautiful, the vocabulary long since forgotten, the stories quite enjoyable! Worth the time to go back and read again just for the sheer joy of the refreshing language!amp/hearts.
I really enjoyed this story collection, “Kittys Class Day” was sweet and oldfashioned and just lovely, Jack was a dear, and the story gave me “Little Women” vibes several times! “Aunt Kipp” was hilarious and sweet.
“Psyches Art” was lovely and had an excellent message, . . “A Country Christmas” was full of good advice, romance, and oldfashioned happiness, “On Picket Duty” will not be pleasing to the sympathizer of the South its set in the American Civil War/WBTS, but it was interesting enough.
“My Red Cap” was sweet, . . “What the Bells Heard amp Saw” would have been lovely, except it was about spirits so I will not be rereading it.
Call me an incurable romantic, but “A Barons Gloves” was my favourite of all those lovely stories.
I enjoyed it so, so much!!!
A Favourite Quote: “, . . I'd hunt up some homely, happy folks to write about folks that don't borrer trouble and go lookin' for holes in their neighbors' coats, but take their lives brave and cheerful and rememberin' we are all human, have pity on the weak, and try to be as full of mercy, patience and lovin' kindness as Him who made us.
That sort of a book would do a heap of good be real warmin' and strengthening and make them that read it love the man that wrote it, and remember him when he was dead and gone.
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A Favourite Humorous Quote: “The two young ladies, . . sat apart, apparently absorbed in novels, while each was privately longing for somebody to come, and with the charming inconsistency of the fair sex, planning to fly if certain somebodies did appear.
” “Kittys Class Day” as a title sounds like a story about a young child going to school, but it is in fact about ayearold obsessed with looking her best, making use of what materials shes got to look fashionable and make mens heads turn with admiration and women look with envy.
This lighthearted and amusing tale is my favourite of this collection,
stars.
“Aunt Kipp” is the name of asomething rich woman who is something of a Scrooge.
She does little to help her niece, grandniece, or grandnephew, but succeeds in annoying and upsetting them.
Onlyyearold Toady has any impact on her hard old heart but he tends to rub her up the wrong way quite often, as he tends to tell the truth without ever considering tact.
I found this to be an upbeat, amusing tale,
stars.
“Psyches Art” is about a female sculptor who wants to be the best she can in her art.
After a chat with a man much more talented than she, Psyche strange name for a lady! comes to see that caring for others is the best way to feed her soul and ultimately excel with her passion.
A sombre moralistic tale, this one, and one of Ms Alcotts least appealing for me, so onlystars.
I read “A Country Christmas” separately in December, which is the best time for a simple, sweet, satisfying, seasonal short story such as this.
stars.
“On Picket Duty” is a short story comprised of four even shorter stories, one each told by the four characters who are, as the title suggests, on picket duty.
Better than the previous tale, but still not to my tastes, soagain,
“The Barons Gloves” is more to my liking than the previous two stories however, Ms Alcott practically disowns this one in the preface.
She states:
“I have added "The Baron's Gloves," as a sample of the romantic rubbish which paid so well once upon a time.
If it shows what not to write it will not have been rescued from oblivion in vain.
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I disagree, as I enjoyed the lighthearted tone and upbeat mood of this tale,
Two young women Helen and Amy accompany their uncle during a trip through Germany, The women long for some adventure to add spice to the routine feel of the travels,
Sure enough, their hopes are realised, and this long short story perhaps it qualifies as a novelette is comprised of several individual incidents that are linked together.
stars, despite the author suggesting it isnt even worthy ofstar!
“My Red Cap” is about a nurse who meets a newly recruited soldier by chance before he departs on his new life.
Throughout the tale the pair meet again over time, the third occasion being after ayear gap, and upon every meeting the soldier is in a worse state than before.
However much he suffers he manages to grin and bear it,
The nurse feels affection for him but this is not a tale of love but rather of platonic friendship.
Found this quite mundane and skipped a few paragraphs, Not Louisa at her best, in my opinion,
stars.
“What the Bells Saw and Said” is about a group of spirits who “dwell” in the bells.
Set on Christmas Eve, the spirits discuss the year on the whole, mixing tales of happiness and woe.
The amount of woe resulted in me skipping half of this,
Found this too preachy and lifeless,
star. "How little it takes to make a young girl happy! A pretty dress, sunshine, and somebody opposite, and they are blest.
" Well, that about sums it up, folks, I own theedition of thisbook by Louisa May Alcott, I've collected many of her old books in order to read her entire collection, I'm pretty close to being done, Why would I do such a thing Obsessive Compulsive Maybe, But her works, in general, are delightful, They range from Little Women, semi autobiographical to newly discovered potboilers, which I have totally enjoyed, Not only are the stories entertaining, but the progress, and sometimes regression, of the author is an interesting account of a female writer struggling to make herself known in a man's world.
We authors owe her. Kitty's Class Day is a compilation of short stories: some for children and some for adults, Many of her stories were written during wartime, As sitelink A. M. Barnard: Behind a Mask, or a Womans PowerThe Abbots Ghost, or Maurice Trehernes TemptationA Long Fatal Love Chasefirst publishedFirst published anonymously:A Modern MephistophelesLouisa May Alcott was born in Germantown, Pennsylvania on November,.
She and her three sisters, Anna, Elizabeth and May were educated by their father, philosopher/ teacher, Bronson Alcott and raised on the practical Christianity of their mother, Abigail May.
Louisa spent her childhood in Boston and in Concord, Massachusetts, where her days were enlightened by visits to Ralph Waldo Emersons library, excursions into nature with Henry David Thoreau and theatricals in the barn at Hillside now Hawthornes Wayside As sitelink A.
M. Barnard: Behind a Mask, or a Woman's PowerThe Abbot's Ghost, or Maurice Treherne's TemptationA Long Fatal Love Chasefirst publishedFirst published anonymously:A Modern MephistophelesLouisa May Alcott was born in Germantown, Pennsylvania on November,.
She and her three sisters, Anna, Elizabeth and May were educated by their father, philosopher/ teacher, Bronson Alcott and raised on the practical Christianity of their mother, Abigail May.
Louisa spent her childhood in Boston and in Concord, Massachusetts, where her days were enlightened by visits to Ralph Waldo Emersons library, excursions into nature with Henry David Thoreau and theatricals in the barn at Hillside now Hawthornes "Wayside".
Like her character, Jo March in Little Women, young Louisa was a tomboy: "No boy could be my friend till I had beaten him in a race," she claimed, " and no girl if she refused to climb trees, leap fences.
"For Louisa, writing was an early passion, She had a rich imagination and often her stories became melodramas that she and her sisters would act out for friends.
Louisa preferred to play the "lurid" parts in these plays, "the villains, ghosts, bandits, and disdainful queens.
"At age, troubled by the poverty that plagued her family, she vowed: "I will do something by and by.
Dont care what, teach, sew, act, write, anything to help the family and Ill be rich and famous and happy before I die, see if I wont!"Confronting a society that offered little opportunity to women seeking employment, Louisa determined "I will make a battering ram of my head and make my way through this rough and tumble world.
" Whether as a teacher, seamstress, governess, or household servant, for many years Louisa did any work she could find.
Louisas career as an author began with poetry and short stories that appeared in popular magazines, In, when she was, her first book Flower Fables was published, A milestone along her literary path was Hospital Sketchesbased on the letters she had written home from her post as a nurse in Washington, DC as a nurse during the Civil War.
When Louisa wasyears old, her publisher Thomas Niles in Boston asked her to write "a book for girls.
" Little Women was written at Orchard House from May to July, The novel is based on Louisa and her sisters coming of age and is set in Civil War New England.
Jo March was the first American juvenile heroine to act from her own individuality a living, breathing person rather than the idealized stereotype then prevalent in childrens fiction.
In all, Louisa published overbooks and collections of stories, She died on March,, only two days after her father, and is buried in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in Concord.
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