Download or read book Kitty s Class Day and Other Stories Illustrated Classic Edition with Original Illustrations written by Louisa May Alcott and published by . This book was released on 2020-09-28 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Louisa May Alcott was born in Germantown, Pennsylvania, on November 29, 1832. She was one of four daughters of Bronson Alcott, an educator and philosopher (one who seeks an understanding of the world and man's place in it), and Abigail May Alcott. Her father was unsuited for many jobs and also unwilling to take many of them, and as a result he was unable to support his family. The Alcotts were very poor. Her father moved the family to Boston, Massachusetts, in 1834 and founded the Temple School, in which he planned to use his own teaching methods. The school failed, and the family moved to Concord, Massachusetts, in 1840.Alcott's father was a strong supporter of women's rights and an early abolitionist (opponent of slavery), and his friends were some of the most brilliant and famous men and women of the day. His friends included Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), Margaret Fuller (1810-1850), and Theodore Parker (1810-1860). Alcott and her sisters became friends with these visitors as well, and were even tutored by them at times. This combination of intellectual richness and actual poverty helped Alcott develop her sense of humor.Alcott soon realized that if she and her sisters did not find ways to bring money into the home, the family would be doomed to permanent poverty. In her early years she worked at a variety of tasks to make money to help her family, including teaching, sewing, and housework. At sixteen she wrote a book, Flower Fables (not published for six years), and she wrote a number of plays that were never produced. By 1860 her stories and poems were being published in the Atlantic Monthly. During the Civil War (1861-65; a war fought in the United States between the states in the North and the states in the South mainly over the issue of slavery), Alcott served as a nurse until her health failed.
Download or read book Kitty s Class Day and Other Stories written by Louisa May Alcott and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-09-15 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Kitty's Class Day and Other Stories' is a book written by Louisa May Alcott, the author of Little Women. In it, two young women, Kitty and Pis, snipped and sewed, and planned and pieced; going through all the alternations of despair and triumph, worry and satisfaction, which women undergo when a new suit is under way. Company kept coming, for news of Kitty's expedition had flown abroad, and her young friends must just run in to hear about it, and ask what she was going to wear; while Kitty was so glad and proud to tell, and show, and enjoy her little triumph that many half hours were wasted, and the second day found much still to do.
Download or read book Kitty s Class Day and Other Stories written by Louisa M Alcott and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-01-12 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kitty's Class Day and Other Stories - By Louisa M. Alcott - Children's Classics. Louisa May Alcott (November 29, 1832 - March 6, 1888) was an American novelist best known as author of the novel Little Women and its sequels Good Wives, Little Men and Jo's Boys. Raised by her transcendentalist parents, Abigail May and Amos Bronson Alcott in New England, she grew up among many of the well-known intellectuals of the day such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry David Thoreau. Nevertheless, her family suffered severe financial difficulties and Alcott worked to help support the family from an early age. She began to receive critical success for her writing in the 1860s. Early in her career, she sometimes used the pen name A. M. Barnard. With her pen name Louisa wrote novels for young adults in juvenile hall. Published in 1868, Little Women is set in the Alcott family home, Orchard House, in Concord, Massachusetts and is loosely based on Alcott's childhood experiences with her three sisters. The no
Download or read book Kitty s Class Day and Other Stories written by Louisa May Alcott and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 1908 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stories by author of "Little Women".
Download or read book Kitty s Class Day and Other Stories written by Louisa Alcott and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2009-04-16 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published under the title Proverb Stories in 1882, Kitty's Class Day and Other Stories by Louisa May Alcott is an enchanting anthology of short stories. Using different characters in each story, she has portrayed various aspects of life brilliantly. It is a collection with lots of moralistic and didactical ideas. Using proverbs as heading for her stories she has presented profoundly didactic tales.
Download or read book Kitty s Class Day and other Stories written by Louisa May Alcott and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2019-09-25 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: Kitty ́s Class Day and other Stories by Louisa May Alcott
Download or read book Kitty s Class Day and Other Stories written by Louisa May Alcott and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-05-02 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Book is annotated (it contains a detailed biography of the author). *An active Table of Contents has been added by the publisher for a better customer experience.*This book has been checked and corrected for spelling errors.Originally published under the title Proverb Stories, this collection includes: Kitty's Class Day; Aunt Kipp; Psyche's Art; A Country Christmas; On Picket Duty; The Baron's Gloves; My Red Cap; What the Bells Saw and Said. We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public. The aim of our publishing program is to facilitate rapid access to this vast reservoir of literature, and our view is that this is a significant literary work, which deserves to be brought back into print after many decades. The contents of the vast majority of titles in the Classic Library have been scanned from the original works. To ensure a high quality product, each title has been meticulously hand curated by our staff. Our philosophy has been guided by a desire to provide the reader with a book that is as close as possible to ownership of the original work. We hope that you will enjoy this wonderful classic work, and that for you it becomes an enriching experience.
Download or read book Kitty s Class Day and Other Stories Complete with Original Illustrations written by Louisa May Alcott and published by . This book was released on 2020-03-16 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Louisa May Alcott was born in Germantown, Pennsylvania, on November 29, 1832. She was one of four daughters of Bronson Alcott, an educator and philosopher (one who seeks an understanding of the world and man's place in it), and Abigail May Alcott. Her father was unsuited for many jobs and also unwilling to take many of them, and as a result he was unable to support his family. The Alcotts were very poor. Her father moved the family to Boston, Massachusetts, in 1834 and founded the Temple School, in which he planned to use his own teaching methods. The school failed, and the family moved to Concord, Massachusetts, in 1840.Alcott's father was a strong supporter of women's rights and an early abolitionist (opponent of slavery), and his friends were some of the most brilliant and famous men and women of the day. His friends included Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), Margaret Fuller (1810-1850), and Theodore Parker (1810-1860). Alcott and her sisters became friends with these visitors as well, and were even tutored by them at times. This combination of intellectual richness and actual poverty helped Alcott develop her sense of humor.Alcott soon realized that if she and her sisters did not find ways to bring money into the home, the family would be doomed to permanent poverty. In her early years she worked at a variety of tasks to make money to help her family, including teaching, sewing, and housework. At sixteen she wrote a book, Flower Fables (not published for six years), and she wrote a number of plays that were never produced. By 1860 her stories and poems were being published in the Atlantic Monthly. During the Civil War (1861-65; a war fought in the United States between the states in the North and the states in the South mainly over the issue of slavery), Alcott served as a nurse until her health failed. Her description of the experience in Hospital Sketches (1863) brought her work to the attention of many people.The attention seemed to die out, however, when she published her first novel, Moods, in 1865, and she was glad to accept a job in 1867 as the editor of the juvenile magazine Merry's Museum. The next year she produced the first volume of Little Women, a cheerful and attractive account of her childhood. The character Jo represented Alcott herself, and Amy, Beth, and Meg represented her sisters. The book was an instant success, and a second volume followed in 1869. The resulting sales accomplished the goal she had worked toward for twenty-five years: the Alcott family had enough money to live comfortably.After Little Women set the direction, Alcott continued producing similar works. She wrote An Old-fashioned Girl (1870), Little Men (1871), and Work (1873), an account of her early efforts to help support the family. During this time she took an active role in speaking out about the danger of drinking alcohol, and she also campaigned for women's suffrage (right to vote). She also toured Europe. In 1876 she produced Silver Pitchers, a collection containing "Transcendental Wild Oats," a description of her father's failed attempts to found a communal group (where people live together and share ownership and use of property) in Fruitlands, Massachusetts. In later life she produced a book almost every year and maintained a loyal following of readers.Alcott died on March 6, 1888, in Boston, Massachusetts. She seems never to have become bitter about the struggles of her early years or her father's flaws. She did give some indication of her feelings about him, however, when she said that a philosopher was like a man up in a balloon: he was safe, as long as three women held the ropes on the ground.
Download or read book Kitty s Class Day and Other Stories written by Louisa May Alcott and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-12-31 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Being forbidden to write anything at present I have collected various waifs and strays to appease the young people who clamor for more, forgetting that mortal brains need rest. As many girls have asked to see what sort of tales Jo March wrote at the beginning of her career, I have added "The Baron's Gloves," as a sample of the romantic rubbish which paid so well once upon a time. If it shows them what not to write it will not have been rescued from oblivion in vain. L. M. ALCOTT.
Download or read book Kitty s Class Day and Other Stories with Original Illustrations written by Louisa May Alcott and published by . This book was released on 2019-09-13 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book Kitty s Class Day and Other Stories Annotated written by Louisa May Alcott and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-06-15 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Kitty's Class Day" as a title sounds like a story about a young child going to school, but it is in fact about a 17-year-old obsessed with looking her best, making use of what materials she's got to look fashionable and make men's heads turn with admiration and women look with envy. Contents Kitty's class day -- Aunt Kipp -- Psyche's art -- A country Christmas -- On picket duty -- The baron's gloves -- My red cap -- What the bells saw and said.
Download or read book Kitty s Class Day and Other Stories written by Louisa May Alcott and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-05-16 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although it is Louisa May Alcott's beloved novel Little Women that is the source of most of her continued literary acclaim, Alcott was a prolific and versatile writer who produced works in virtually every genre over the course of her long career.
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Download or read book Kitty s Class Day written by Louisa May Alcott and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2020-06 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "We can make it ourselves," continued Kitty, "and trim it with the same. It's white with blue stripes and daisies in the stripes; the loveliest thing you ever saw, and can't be got here. So simple, yet distingué, I know you'll like it. Next, my bonnet,"-here the solemnity of Kitty's face and manner was charming to behold. "I shall make it out of one of my new illusion undersleeves. I've never worn them; and the puffed part will be a plenty for a little fly-away bonnet of the latest style. I've got blue ribbons to tie it with, and have only to look up some daisies for the inside. With my extra two dollars I shall buy my gloves, and pay my fares, -and there I am, all complete."
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Download or read book Kitty s Class Day written by Louisa May Alcott and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2020-06 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "We can make it ourselves," continued Kitty, "and trim it with the same. It's white with blue stripes and daisies in the stripes; the loveliest thing you ever saw, and can't be got here. So simple, yet distingué, I know you'll like it. Next, my bonnet,"-here the solemnity of Kitty's face and manner was charming to behold. "I shall make it out of one of my new illusion undersleeves. I've never worn them; and the puffed part will be a plenty for a little fly-away bonnet of the latest style. I've got blue ribbons to tie it with, and have only to look up some daisies for the inside. With my extra two dollars I shall buy my gloves, and pay my fares, -and there I am, all complete."
