- Paperback: 316 pages
- Publisher: King Press (June 2008)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1409764974
- ISBN-13: 978-1409764977
- Product Dimensions: 21.6 x 14 x 1.8 cm
- Shipping Weight: 431 g
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"Like her later works for children, Alcott's first novel is well and imaginatively written, highly moralistic, unlikely, and moving." -- The Antioch Review
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Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
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26 of 27 people found the following review helpful
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Alcott's first novel, April 7 2002
By Anne Boyd Rioux - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Moods by Louisa May Alcott (Paperback)
As Alcott's first novel, this book is much more than a precursor to Little Women. It was also her attempt at serious literary recognition. Its intertexualities with the Transcendentalists, particularly Thoreau and Marget Fuller, make it an important book, as does its serious examination of a taboo subject in the 1860s: marriage and divorce. Although Alcott was not satisfied with the book, due to the many cuts required by her publisher, Moods exhibits a very ambitious Alcott finding her voice as a writer and addressing the difficult and controversial subjects with which women were wrestling. Alcott's first novel was influenced by Jane Eyre and The Scarlet Letter and bears reading alongside those two classics.
24 of 28 people found the following review helpful
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Better than its repuatation suggests, April 2 2001
By Shannon Brown - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Moods by Louisa May Alcott (Paperback)
I was basically forced to read this novel for a college survey course in American Romanticism. I had read 'Little Women' in high school and didn't think much of it. Too morally heavy-handed and contrived and not entertaining at all. 'Moods' suprised me. The same criticisms apply, but I did find the book a pleasure to read. The criticisms that the book places against the society of the times about women's behavioral expectations, while not exactly revolutionary, were well thought out and not as in-your-face as the messages found in 'Little Women'. The characters are not as one dimensional as in 'Little Women' and I thought Sylvia's dilemna was belieavable. Like I said before, I was suprised at how much I liked the book.
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Too saccharine, uninteresting characters, Mar 5 2012
By MamaSylvia - Published on Amazon.com
eBook downloaded from [...]Adam gives deceitful Ottila one year to become the woman she pretended to be or he will end their engagement. Meanwhile, spending time with another friend, he falls in love with generous and virtuous Sylvia.
Alcott's saccharine praise of "modest womanhood" gets old, and both Adam and Sylvia are one-note characters that did not hold my interest. I only lasted about a third of the way through this very preachy tale.
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