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The Inheritance (1850) — Editor, algunas ediciones1,170 copias
The Lost Stories Of Louisa May Alcott (1995) — Editor, algunas ediciones127 copias
The Journals of Louisa May Alcott (1989) — Editor, algunas ediciones101 copias
The Selected Letters of Louisa May Alcott (1987) — Editor, algunas ediciones65 copias
Louisa May Alcott's fairy tales and fantasy stories (1992) — Editor, algunas ediciones24 copias

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L'altra faccia della Alcott.
E' soprendente pensare che l'autrice di "Piccole donne", che è un trionfo di buoni sentimenti, abbia potuto ideare queste trame a tinte forti, ma sono stati scritti quando Louisa May era ancora Jo March e sfornava racconti sensazionalistici per guadagnare qualche soldo con cui mantenere la famiglia.
Questi in particolare erano destinati ad una rivista "per signore", quindi epurati da qualunque tema scabroso ed incentrati su passioni travolgenti, eroine misteriose e sottili vendette: tutto quello che poteva stimolare l'immaginazione delle lettrici tra un consiglio di moda e l'altro. Il fatto che siano prodotti in serie e non abbiano alcun valore letterario non deve però far pensare che siano brutti: anzi sono ben scritti, si leggono con estrema piacevolezza e pur nell'enfaticità che era richiesta per questo tipo di storie conservano una certa verosimiglianza che non li lascia mai scadere nel ridicolo, pur arrivandoci molto vicino a volte (penso ad esempio a "La mia misteriosa mademoiselle", dove la nostra sospensione dell'incredulità è messa a dura a prova).
In ogni caso come in tutte le raccolte di racconti ce ne sono alcuni più riusciti (penso a "Chi sarà la vincitrice?", originale e con un finale a sopresa) ed altri dimenticabili ("La fortuna di Honor" è abbastanza insulso, lo ammetto), ma nel complesso sono storie appassionanti scritte con professionalità, nelle quali si può già scorgere il grande talento dell'autrice.
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Lilirose_ | Mar 10, 2019 |
3½***. I'm not at all crazy about Little Women to begin with (I find it terribly preachy, in contrast with Anne of Green Gables), but this Belknap (Harvard) Press annotated edition (ISBN 9780674059719) is a lush coffee-table production worth reading for its illustrations and for its screen-shots from some of the film adaptations, particularly George Cukor's (1933) and Mervyn LeRoy's (1949). But Christopher Columbus! if the 1933 film adaptation in particular isn't vastly superior to the Alcott novel, particularly for Kate Hepburn's Jo.

If a reader is going to choose just one edition for academic study, the Norton Critical is probably to be preferred. This Belknap (Harvard) Press edition does contain some valuable annotation, but one criticism I have is an excessive and somewhat too overly certain reliance on the OED for words-and-phrases origins.

A particularly egregious example can be found on page 144, note 37: "The OED defines fuss and feathers as 'bustle and display,' and gives the first use of the term as 1866, just two years before the publication of Little Women." Ouch! but anyone familiar with American military history should be aware that "Old Fuss and Feathers" was the not-so-affectionate nickname bestowed in the mid-1840s by his enlisted men on General Winfield Scott during the Mexican War — something of which Alcott would certainly have been aware (though I don't mean to imply that this use of the phrase in Little Women had any reference to Scott). The antislavery-leaning Scott was the unsuccessful Whig presidential candidate in 1852, defeated by the pro-slavery Democrat Franklin Pierce, the lifelong friend of Alcott's Concord neighbor Nathaniel Hawthorne.
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CurrerBell | Mar 26, 2014 |
Because this is a collection of articles and interviews done during Alcott's life, the same questions and answers get repeated, which makes the content a bit repetitive if you read the collection cover to cover. Still, as she was still a celebrity and not yet an icon when these pieces were done, it's interestingly fresh.
 
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nessreader | otra reseña | Oct 4, 2008 |
This book was such an interesting view of life in the mid-1800's, especially in Concord during the time of the Transcendentalists (Alcotts, Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne). You hear the details of life as told, for the most part, by those who were there. It provides a fascinating, realistic picture of Louisa May Alcott's life, both before the publication of Little Women and after. The essays may seem a bit repetitious, but they each bring something unique to patch together a fascinating picture of Civil War-era life.… (más)
 
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