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Title: Moods (American Women Writers Series) by Louisa May Alcott, Sarah Elbert ISBN: 0-8135-1670-6 Publisher: Rutgers University Press Pub. Date: March, 1991 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Alcott's first novel
Comment: 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.
Rating: 4
Summary: Better than its repuatation suggests
Comment: 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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Title: Work: A Story of Experience (Penguin Classics) by Louisa May Alcott, Joy S. Kasson ISBN: 014039091X Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: June, 1994 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Jack and Jill by Louisa May Alcott ISBN: 0316030848 Publisher: Little Brown & Company Pub. Date: 01 April, 1999 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: The Inheritance (Penguin Classics) by Louisa May Alcott, Joel Myerson, Daniel Shealy ISBN: 0140436669 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: February, 1998 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Flower Fables by Louisa May Alcott ISBN: 1404304371 Publisher: Indypublish.Com Pub. Date: May, 2002 List Price(USD): $11.99 |
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Title: Under the Lilacs by Louisa May Alcott ISBN: 0316030872 Publisher: Little Brown & Company Pub. Date: 01 November, 1996 List Price(USD): $9.99 |
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