A Merry Christmas
And Other Christmas Stories
One of six beloved Christmas classics in collectible hardcover editions
A Merry Christmas collects the treasured holiday tales of Louisa May Alcott, from the dearly familiar Yuletide benevolence of Marmee and her “little women” to the timeless “What Love Can Do,” wherein the residents of a boarding house come together to make a lovely Christmas for two poor girls. Wildly popular at the time of their publication—readers deluged Alcott with letters demanding sequels—and drawing on Alcott’s family and experiences in the abolitionist and women’s suffrage movements, these stories have the authentic texture and detail of Christmas in nineteenth-century America, while their emphasis on generosity and charity make them timeless embodiments of the…
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October 8, 2014Louisa May Alcott was born in Germantown, Pennsylvania, in 1832, the second of four daughters of Abigail May Alcott and Bronson Alcott, the prominent Transcendentalist thinker and social reformer. Raised in Concord, Massachusetts, and educated by her father, Alcott early on came under the influence of the great men of his circle: Emerson, Hawthorne, the preacher Theodore Parker, and Thoreau. From her youth, Louisa worked at various tasks to help support her family: sewing, teaching, domestic service, and writing. In 1862, she volunteered to serve as an army nurse in a Union hospital during the Civil War— an experience that provided her material for her first successful book, Hospital Sketches (1863). Between 1863 and 1869, she published several anonymous and pseudonymous Gothic romances…
Little Women
Louisa May Alcott
Little Men
Louisa May Alcott
Little Women
Louisa May Alcott
Jo's Boys
Louisa May Alcott
Good Wives
Louisa May Alcott
Little Women
Louisa May Alcott; Edited with an Introduction by Anne Boyd Rioux; Foreword by Patti Smith
Little Women
Louisa May Alcott; introduction by Laurie Halse Anderson
Penguin Readers Level 1: Little Women
Louisa May Alcott
Little Women
Louisa May Alcott with an Introduction by Regina Barreca and an Afterword by Susan Straight
Little Women
Louisa May Alcott
Little Women
Louisa May Alcott
Little Women
Louisa May Alcott
Little Men
Louisa May Alcott
Sisters
Louisa May Alcott
The Nutcracker
E. T. A. Hoffmann
The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus
L. Frank Baum, Mary Cowles Clark
A Merry Christmas
Louisa May Alcott
Christmas at Thompson Hall
Anthony Trollope
The Night Before Christmas
Nikolai Gogol, Konstantin Makovsky, Igor Grabar, Aleksei Kivshenko
A Christmas Carol
Charles Dickens, John Leech
The Phantom of the Opera
Gaston Leroux; Translated and Edited by Mireille Ribière; Introduction by Jann Matlock; Cover illustrated by Coralie Bickford-Smith
Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit
Jeanette Winterson
Mrs Dalloway
Virginia Woolf
To the Lighthouse
Virginia Woolf
Buddenbrooks
Thomas Mann
Death in Venice & Other Stories
Thomas Mann
Persuasion
Jane Austen
Northanger Abbey
Jane Austen
Mansfield Park
Jane Austen
River Stories
Edited by Henry Hughes
Monkey King
Wu Cheng'en; Edited and Translated with an Introduction and Notes by Julia Lovell; Foreword by Gene Luen Yang
Emma
Jane Austen
Jane Eyre
Charlotte Brontë
Diary of an Ordinary Woman
Margaret Forster
Frankenstein
Mary Shelley
The Spider
Lars Kepler
The Book of Elsewhere
Keanu Reeves and China Miéville
Bear
Marian Engel; Introduction by Claire Cameron
Island
Alistair MacLeod
Medicine Walk
Richard Wagamese
The Summer Pact
Emily Giffin
There Are Rivers in the Sky
Elif Shafak
Here One Moment
Liane Moriarty
Mina's Matchbox
Yoko Ogawa; Translated by Stephen B. Snyder
Mrs Dalloway
Virginia Woolf
To the Lighthouse
Virginia Woolf
The Heart in Winter
Kevin Barry
Unrest
Gwen Tuinman
Code Noir
Canisia Lubrin