<div>A collection of short fiction portraying all phases of the war from Louisa May Alcott, Mark Twain, Ambrose Bierce, Stephen Crane, Henry James, and others. Civil War Memories is a compilation of nineteen stories of the Civil War written in the late 1800s, giving them a ring of authenticity. The voices are both Northern and Southern, male and female, angry and melancholy, serious and comic; but they all treat the Civil War as a watershed in American history and in the lives of those who lived through it. Authors include: Bret Harte, Thomas Bailey Aldrich, W. C. Morrow, Stephen Crane, Ambrose Bierce, Rebecca Harding Davis, Louisa May Alcott, Albion W. Tourgée, George Cary Eggleston, Mark Twain, Henry James, Grace E. King, Harold Frederic, John William De Forest, Kate Chopin, Thomas Nelson Page, Sarah Orne Jewett, Edward Lucas White, Henry Timrod.</div>

Civil War Memories

<div>This beautiful, giftable Christmas collection features old-fashioned works from classic authors who invite you to a feast of holiday nostalgia.Filled with stories that have been part of the Christmas season for generations, A Vintage Christmas is a unique collection of lesser-known Christmas tales, reflections, and poems from beloved authors across the centuries and makes the perfect gift for the reader in your life. This beautiful treasury will take you back to firesides, simple gifts, and warm family moments of Christmases past as you cherish the timeless truths and joys of the season.Discover a charming story from L. M. Montgomery about love and sacrifice in a little log house. See Christmas through the eyes of a child in a New England colonial village with Harriet Beecher Stowe. Remember the reason Christ came to earth in the poetry of Anne Bront&euml;. Share with your family the delightful letter Mark Twain wrote as Santa Claus to his three-year-old daughter.A Vintage Christmas includes stories from Louisa May Alcott, Charles Dickens, Ralph Henry Barbour, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Mark Twain, L. M. Montgomery, and William Dean Howells, as well as poems from Eliza Cook, Christina Rossetti, William Makepeace Thackeray, Joyce Kilmer, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and Samuel Taylor Coleridge.A Vintage Christmas is a timeless reminder that the heart of the holiday never changes.<ul><li>Hardcover, giftable size</li><li> Perfect as a stocking stuffer and host or hostess gift</li><li> Filled with hopeful and encouraging Christmas stories</li><li> Makes a lovely keepsake companion to A Classic Christmas and A Timeless Christmas</li></ul></div>

A Vintage Christmas

<div>The iconic novel of American girlhood, and basis for the film adaptation by acclaimed writer-director, Greta Gerwig. Beautiful and proper Meg, headstrong Jo, gentle Beth, pampered little Amy&mdash;generations of young women have recognized themselves in one or more of the devoted March sisters. Set against the backdrop of the Civil War and the changing seasons of New England, the story of their passage from adolescence to adulthood&mdash;from a Christmas without presents to a glorious fall day in a bountiful apple orchard, from castles in the air to real-life hearths and homes&mdash;is just as touching and illuminating today as it was a century and a half ago. Based on author Louisa May Alcott&rsquo;s own childhood and early career as a writer, Little Women is her masterpiece and one of the most popular novels of all time.</div>

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Little Women

<div>Venture to a world of fairies and flowers in this nineteenth-century collection of stories and poems from the beloved author of Little Women. At the tender age of sixteen, Louisa May Alcott&rsquo;s imagination was already in full bloom. From tales she told her neighbor, Ellen, daughter of Ralph Waldo Emerson, she wove together stories and songs about fairies, elves, talking flowers, and animals. With innocence and whimsy, Alcott revealed the shadowy kingdom of the Frost-King; introduced the vain fairy, Thistledown, and his kindly friend, Lily-Bell; descended into the depths of the sea with Ripple, the water-spirit; and more! The inspiration for the setting of &ldquo;Fairyland&rdquo; was in fact the wooded area around Walden Pond owned by Emerson, where Henry David Thoreau would lead the Alcott sisters and their friends on the berry-picking adventures that activated a rich fantasy world in young Alcott&rsquo;s mind. As delicately constructed as a butterfly&rsquo;s wings, these fanciful fables offer a sweet and fascinating glimpse into the imagination of a legendary American writer who had just begun to find her voice. Flower Fables includes&ldquo;The Frost King: Or, The Power of Love,&rdquo; &ldquo;Eva&rsquo;s Visit to Fairy-Land,&rdquo; &ldquo;The Flower&rsquo;s Lesson,&rdquo; &ldquo;Lily-Bell and Thistledown,&rdquo; &ldquo;Little Bud,&rdquo; &ldquo;Clover-Blossom,&rdquo; &ldquo;Little Annie&rsquo;s Dream: Or, The Fairy Flower,&rdquo; and &ldquo;Ripple, the Water-Spirit Fairy Song.&rdquo; This ebook has been professionally proofread to ensure accuracy and readability on all devices.</div>

Flower Fables

<div>Prepare to see the world through new eyes: This inspirational collection offers up a healthy dose of optimism with five classic coming-of-age stories. Featuring the youthful adventures of some of fiction&rsquo;s most beloved heroines, this collection&mdash;which includes Pollyanna, The Secret Garden, Little Women, Anne of Green Gables, and Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm&mdash;proves that, while growing up can be hard, the right attitude makes anything and everything possible. Though the young ladies in these stories hail from all over the world and all walks of life, they share a common truth: In an ever changing world, the journey from childhood to adulthood can be full of challenges, especially for girls. But as Pollyanna finds happiness in every situation, Mary Lennox coaxes her garden to thrive, the March sisters navigate the pitfalls of love and loss, Anne Shirley conquers the hearts of Avonlea, and Rebecca Randall inspires her family with joy, each iconic character changes her life&mdash;and the lives of everyone around them&mdash;for the better with hopeful, persistent optimism. The inspiration for numerous treasured film and TV adaptations, including Netflix&rsquo;s Anne with an E, these timeless tales have captured the imaginations and hearts of generations of readers. Now collected in one delightful volume, these classic children&rsquo;s novels will charm and enchant as their spirited heroines embark on the eye-opening adventure of growing up.</div>

Charming Novels of Classic Heroines

<div>From the author of Little Women: An American classic of young best friends in a rustic New England town. In post&ndash;Civil War New England, thirteen-year-old Jack Minot and Janey Pecq are inseparable best friends who live next door to each other in the town of Harmony Village. The pair does everything together&mdash;so much so that Janey is nicknamed &ldquo;Jill&rdquo; to fit the old children&rsquo;s rhyme. One winter day, the friends share a sled down a treacherous hill and both end up injured and bedridden. Unable to go out and have fun, Jack, Jill, and their circle of friends begin to learn about more than the fun and games of their youth and discover what it means to grow up&mdash;exploring their town, their hearts, and the big, wide world beyond for the first time. This charming, wistful coming-of-age tale, written twelve years after Louisa May Alcott&rsquo;s classic Little Women, examines the strange, tempestuous changes of adolescence with homespun heart and worldly wisdom.</div>

Jack and Jill

<div>The iconic novel of American girlhood, and basis for the film adaptation by acclaimed writer-director, Greta Gerwig. Beautiful and proper Meg, headstrong Jo, gentle Beth, pampered little Amy&mdash;generations of young women have recognized themselves in one or more of the devoted March sisters. Set against the backdrop of the Civil War and the changing seasons of New England, the story of their passage from adolescence to adulthood&mdash;from a Christmas without presents to a glorious fall day in a bountiful apple orchard, from castles in the air to real-life hearths and homes&mdash;is just as touching and illuminating today as it was a century and a half ago. Based on author Louisa May Alcott&rsquo;s own childhood and early career as a writer, Little Women is her masterpiece and one of the most popular novels of all time. This enhanced ebook features a bonus audio excerpt of Chapter Two: A Merry Christmas.</div>

<div>A country girl heads to the city in this novel from the author of Little Women: &ldquo;Louisa May Alcott makes episodic and virtuous narratives engaging&rdquo; (The Literary Omnivore). When fourteen-year-old Polly Milton visits her friend Fanny Shaw and Fanny&rsquo;s wealthy family, she is soon overwhelmed by their fast-paced and fashionable urban life. Although she is teased for her country upbringing, Polly nevertheless endears herself to the Shaw family with her modest demeanor and kind heart. Six years later, Polly returns to the city as a music teacher. Though her friendship with Fanny has never waned, she is shocked to learn the Shaws are on the brink of financial ruin. With Polly&rsquo;s unwavering support, the Shaw family will be guided to a more meaningful life. &ldquo;People always like to read of kindly self-sacrifice, and sweetness, and purity, and naturalness; and this is what Polly is, and what her character teaches in a friendly and unobtrusive way to everybody about her. The story thus mirrors the reader&rsquo;s good-will in her well-doing, and that is perhaps what, more than any other thing, makes it so charming and comfortable.&rdquo; &mdash;The Atlantic</div>

An Old-Fashioned Girl

<div>An early novel of gothic thrills and chills from the beloved author of Little Women. One of four stories written under the penname A. M. Barnard, Behind a Mask was originally published in 1866 for a young adult audience. Set in Victorian-era Britain, it follows the machinations of Jean Muir, a governess hired by the Coventry family to care for their sixteen-year-old daughter. Winning the confidence of the clan proves easy for Jean, though she does raise some suspicion. And rightly so. Behind closed doors&mdash;and beneath her brilliant disguise&mdash;Jean reveals her true identity: a cunning and ambitious actress whose goal is nothing less than securing the Coventry family&rsquo;s estate and fortune for herself. &ldquo;The stories proceed from title to thrilling conclusion at a swift pace. Real page&#8208;turners, they would be called today, their spareness the more admirable because the author, who was paid by the column, nevertheless restrained herself from long descriptions of sunrises and sunsets. Indeed, she is completely uninterested in weather of any sort, unless it is necessary to bring on a dramatic chill or a bit of enervating heat. She cares for character, the more vivid the better. If many of her character&#8208;establishing phrases were clich&eacute;s of their time they were deftly handled, and, in any event, they seem a welcome change from the clich&eacute;s of our time.&rdquo; &mdash;The New York Times on Louisa May Alcott&rsquo;s A. M. Barnard Tales</div>

Behind a Mask

<div>The charming young adult classic featuring much-loved orphan Rose Campbell from the author of Little Women. After the death of her father, thirteen-year-old Rose Campbell is sent to live at &ldquo;Aunt Hill&rdquo; in Boston, a house teeming with not only her maiden great aunts, but also seven spirited male cousins. It&rsquo;s no easy task for Rose to get used to the mayhem after being in a girls&rsquo; boarding school, but when her uncle Alec returns from overseas, he gives her the confidence to stretch her wings. Motherless most of her life, Rose now finds comfort in the embrace of her aunts&mdash;and the beginning of a lifelong friendship with Phebe Moore, the young kitchen maid. &ldquo;Everyone remembers Louisa May Alcott for Little Women and the bonds of family she portrayed in that book, but the friendship she paints in Eight Cousins and Rose in Bloom is much more compelling to me. It stretches across years, overcomes social barriers, and fulfills the needs of the two women in expected and unexpected ways.&rdquo; &mdash;The Toast &ldquo;Children over the years have loved the warm and fun relationships between Rose and the clan. . . . Louisa serves up great comfort food for the soul.&rdquo; &mdash;Louisa May Alcott Is My Passion</div>

Eight Cousins

<div>Jo March and the Plumfield boys return in the third novel in the Little Women series, following Little Men. A decade after the events of Little Men, Jo&rsquo;s Boys returns to the Plumfield estate, where Jo and her husband, Prof. Friedrich Bhaer, still run their boys&rsquo; school. With the March sisters&rsquo; children embarking on their own grown-up adventures, Jo immerses herself in the lives of her students&mdash;both present and past. Freespirited Dan seeks his fortune in the Wild West, Nat&rsquo;s musical career takes him to Europe, and Friedrich&rsquo;s nephew Emil sets sail and is tragically shipwrecked. Their fates will depend on their strength of character and the lessons learned under Jo and Friedrich&rsquo;s loving tutelage. &ldquo;This is the final instalment in the story of the March family, which is now the Bhaer, Brooke, Laurence and March families, and is a nice conclusion to the tale started in Little Women. There is still so much to know about these characters and I personally like the fact that you are left to imagine the rest of the story yourself.&rdquo; &mdash;thebookwormery</div>

Jo's Boys

<div>The second novel in the Little Women series follows the further adventures of the now-married Jo March, her two sons, and her school for boys. After inheriting the Plumfield estate at the end of Little Women, Jo March and her husband, Prof. Friedrich Bhaer, have opened an experimental boys&rsquo; school for orphans and troubled teens. Along with Nathaniel &ldquo;Nat&rdquo; Blake&mdash;the new boy with a musical talent and a penchant for lying&mdash;wild Dan and the other students embark on a rollicking journey of missteps and misadventures, guided by the loving hand of Jo and her family. &ldquo;A brilliant family tale.&rdquo; &mdash;thebookwormery &ldquo;Alcott still knows how to spin a domestic tale with perfect ease. . . . A true classic in every sense of the word. If you loved the March sisters, there is a good chance you will love the boys and girls at Plumfield almost as much. There are definitely some tearjerkers in this one as well but for those who still haven&rsquo;t read it, I won&rsquo;t spoil the surprises in store.&rdquo; &mdash;The Silver Petticoat Review</div>

Little Men

<div>The sequel to Eight Cousins featuring Rose Campbell from the author of the timeless classic Little Women. After two years traveling the world, Rose Campbell returns to her &ldquo;avalanche of aunts&rdquo; at their home in Boston. Though she favors philanthropic pursuits over husband-hunting, she is beset by many admirers&mdash;some who want her for herself, some for her fortune. Meanwhile, her best friend and maid, Phebe Moore, is coming into her own as a concert singer. And when a romantic proposal gives her what she&rsquo;s always wanted&mdash;an official place in Rose&rsquo;s family&mdash;Phebe vows to prove her worth to those who&rsquo;ve meant so much to her . . . &ldquo;Everyone remembers Louisa May Alcott for Little Women and the bonds of family she portrayed in that book, but the friendship she paints in Eight Cousins and Rose in Bloom is much more compelling to me. It stretches across years, overcomes social barriers, and fulfills the needs of the two women in expected and unexpected ways. Phebe&rsquo;s love story with Archie, and Rose&rsquo;s with Mac, are both lovely, but it&rsquo;s Rose and Phebe&rsquo;s friendship that has formed their characters and turned them into the women that they are. Rose in Bloom may end with the happy couples, but I like to think of Rose and Phebe, too, walking forward into their futures step-in-step, and hand-in-hand.&rdquo; &mdash;The Toast &ldquo;An excellent story written by a wonderful, intelligent author who made it engaging for audiences of all ages.&rdquo; &mdash;The Captive Reader</div>

Louisa May Alcott
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Books By Louisa May Alcott (12 Books)

A Vintage Christmas

Little Women

Flower Fables

Charming Novels of Classic Heroines

Jack and Jill

Little Women

An Old-Fashioned Girl

Behind a Mask

Eight Cousins

Jo's Boys

Little Men

Rose in Bloom

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