Louisa May Alcott (1832 - 1888) was an American novelist best known as author of the novel Little Women, Good Wives and the sequels Little Men and Jo's Boys. The first part of Little Women: or Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy (1868), is a semi-autobiographical account of her childhood with her sisters in Concord, Massachusetts. Part two, or Part Second, also known as Good Wives (1869), followed the March sisters into adulthood and their respective marriages. Little Men (1871) detailed Jo's life at the Plumfield School that she founded with her husband Professor Bhaer at the conclusion of Part Two of Little Women. And Jo's Boys (1886) completed the "March Family Saga". Alcott made women's rights integral to her stories, and her fiction became her "most important feminist contribution" - even considering all the efforts Alcott made to help facilitate women's rights during her lifetime.

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In un'aristocratica famiglia inglese fa il suo ingresso Jean Muir, istitutrice dall'aria ingenua, ma che nasconde un fine malvagio. La ragazza è gentile con tutti, ma talvolta la sua lingua biforcuta scatta incontrollabile, lanciando misteriosi e inquietanti avvertimenti. Poco alla volta, grazie ai suoi modi e alle sue qualità, l'istitutrice si guadagna la fiducia dei vari membri della famiglia. Solo allora ognuno capirà che è ormai troppo tardi per difendersi dalla trama diabolica che Jean andava tessendo alle loro spalle... Dall'acclamata autrice di Piccole donne un ingegnoso romanzo dalle atmosfere gotiche e dagli intrecci cupi. Alcott, celatasi per anni dietro lo pseudonimo A. M. Barnard, ha affidato ai suoi personaggi le rivendicazioni di tante donne in età vittoriana: ed ecco che dietro la maschera dell'arrivista, la protagonista Jean Muir non può che risultare simpatica, metafora di una sfacciata lotta contro il perbenismo e contro una società repressiva. La vendetta si consuma nella pratica dell'umiliazione sottile rivolta alla borghesia del tempo, che lentamente vediamo sgretolarsi e ridicolizzarsi sotto la penna arguta della scrittrice e grazie alla nuova traduzione di Donatella Rizzati.

Dietro la maschera

L'histoire de Meg, Jo, Beth et Amy a traversé le siècle sous des titres divers, Les quatre filles du docteur March étant le plus célèbre et sans doute le moins exact, puisque leur père n'est pas médecin, mais bien pasteur.. Cette chronique d'une année dans la vie d'une famille américaine pendant la guerre de Sécession est bien autobiographique, mais, à l'image de la famille de l'auteur, celle des March n'est ni aussi conventionnelle ni aussi ordinaire qu'on a bien voulu le faire croire. Car, de ce livre, ressort la figure forte de Josephine, dite Jo. alter ego affiché de Louisa May Alcott, elle est la rebelle en conflit avec le modèle féminin en vigueur dans la société puritaine de l'Amérique du XIXe siècle. Elle dit qu'on peut être mal dans la peau d'une fille dans le Boston des années 1860, avoir envie de prendre des airs de garçon et nourrir de farouches ambitions littéraires, être pieuse sans être soumise - bref, qu'on peut vivre en 1868 et être progressiste. Alors, ces Quatre filles, roman mièvre, féminin et bien-pensant ? Rien n'est moins sûr C'est ce que cette traduction, abrégée par l'auteur d'autres soeurs inoubliables, s'efforce de montrer

Les Quatre Filles du docteur March Tome 1 - Occasion

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Contents:
Charles Dickens
A Christmas Carol
The Chimes
G.K. Chesterton
A Christmas Carol
L.M. Montgomery
The Red Room
A Christmas Mistake
A Christmas Inspiration
The Josephs' Christmas
Aunt Cyrilla's Christmas Basket
The Osbornes' Christmas
Bertie's New Year
Ida's New Year Cake
The Christmas Surprise at Enderly Road
Clorinda's Gifts
The Falsoms' Christmas Dinner
The Unforgotten One
Christmas at Red Butte
Uncle Richard's New Year's Dinner
L. Frank Baum
A Kidnapped Santa Claus
Little Bun Rabbit
The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus
Mark Twain
A Letter from Santa Claus
Louisa May Alcott
A Country Christmas
Cousin Tribulation's Story
What the Bell Saw and Said
Tilly's Christmas
Tessa's Surprises
Kate's Choice
The Boys' Joke, And Who Got The Best Of It
The Quiet Little Woman
Rosa's Tale
A Christmas Dream and How It Came True
A Christmas Turkey, And How It Came
A Merry Christmas
Leo Tolstoy
A Russian Christmas Party
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Christmas Bells
The Three Kings
Nikolai Gogol
Christmas Eve
William Dean Howells
Christmas Everyday
The Pony Engine and the Pacific Express
Joseph Rudyard Kipling
Christmas in India
Elizabeth Harrison
Little Gretchen and the Wooden Shoe
John Milton
On the Morning of Christ's Nativity
Hans Christian Andersen
The Fir Tree
The Little Match Girl
Selma Lagerlof
A Christmas Guest
The Holy Night
The Legend of the Christmas Rose
Clement Moore
The Night Before Christmas
Henry van Dyke
The Other Wise Man
Beatrix Potter
The Tailor of Gloucester
Anton Chehov
Vanka
O. Henry
The Gift of the Magi
Christmas by Injunction
Whistling Dick's Christmas Stocking
A Chaparral Christmas Gift
An Unfinished Christmas Story
Hesba Stretton
The Christmas Child
Kenneth Grahame
The Wind in the Willows
Robert Louis Stevenson
Christmas at Sea
Markheim
Winter Time
Walter Scott
Christmas In The Olden Time
Alfred Tennyson
Ring out, wild bells
Abbie Farwell Brown
The Christmas Angel
Anthony Trollope
Christmas at Thompson Hall
Thomas Hardy
The Oxen
William Butler Yeats
The Magi
William Makepeace Thackeray
The Mahogany Tree
Charles Kingsley
Christmas Day
Eugene Field
Jest 'Fore Christmas
Emily Dickinson
The Savior must have been a docile Gentleman
Willa Cather
The Burglar's Christmas
Arthur Conan Doyle
The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
A Christmas Tree and a Wedding
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The Christmas-Box
Washington Irving
Christmas
The Stage-Coach
Christmas Eve
Christmas Day
The Christmas Dinner
George MacDonald
Christmas Day and Everyday
The Christmas Child
Christmas Meditation
A Christmas Prayer
A Christmas Carol
My Uncle Peter
Mary's Lullaby
Christmas-Day
The Gifts of the Child Christ
That Holy Thing
Christmas
Christmas Song of the Old Children
King Cole
A Song for Christmas
James Joyce
The Dead
Saki
Bertie's Christmas Eve
William Shakespeare
Song of the Holly
The Gracious Time
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Christmas; or, The Good Fairy
The First Christmas of New England
Betty's Bright Idea
Christmas in Poganuc
Oscar Wilde
The Selfish Giant

The Big Book of Christmas. Classic Stories and Poems. (100 Books)

Bazil Yorke, un sculpteur misanthrope, se voit imposer la tutelle de Cecil, la fille d’une lointaine amie. Tout dévolu à son art, il se donne alors pour objectif de modeler la fillette à l’image de ses statues. Cecil, être de chair et de sang, doit devenir une déesse de marbre, belle, froide et insensible. Pour lui plaire, la jeune fille apprend à cacher ses sentiments et sa nature passionnée, allant jusqu’à rechercher l’impassibilité dans le Laudanum. Au fil des années, l’étau se resserre sur Cecil, en proie à la volonté de toute puissance de cet artiste manipulateur qui lui cache le secret de sa naissance. Mais Yorke lui-même résistera-t-il à la déesse qu’il a créée ?This is a collection of a serialisation published in 1865 in a Boston daily paper.

La Femme de Marbre

Dimenticate le piccole borghesi per bene. La Alcott intinge la sua penna nell'inchiostro più nero e torbido che usa, con la maestria che l'ha resa nota ed amata a generazioni di giovinette e non solo, per narrare storie in cui si intrecciano l'inganno, il mistero, le passioni più scabrose, i vizi proibiti e le paure inconfessabili. In questa antologia di racconti, alcuni scritti sotto pseudonimo e per lungo tempo non attribuiti alla vera autrice, la Alcott dimostra, se ce ne fosse ancora bisogno, di essere una scrittrice capace di sondare ogni aspetto dell'animo umano.

Horrida

Le Docteur March s'est engagé dans l'armée, laissant seules sa femme et leurs quatre filles. Pour la coquette Meg, la bouillante Jo, la timide Beth et l'insupportable Amy, la vie est dure. Mais entre les farces de leur jeune voisin Laurie et les colères de la tante March, elle n'est pas monotone ! Un jour le Docteur March tombe gravement malade...

Les quatre filles du docteur March

Rose sat all alone in the big best parlor, with her little handkerchief laid ready to catch the first tear, for she was thinking of her troubles, and a shower was expected. She had retired to this room as a good place in which to be miserable; for it was dark and still, full of ancient furniture, sombre curtains, and hung all around with portraits of solemn old gentlemen in wigs, severe-nosed ladies in top-heavy caps, and staring children in little bob-tailed coats or short-waisted frocks. It was an excellent place for woe; and the fitful spring rain that pattered on the window-pane seemed to sob, "Cry away: I'm with you."

Eight Cousins

Adaptation d'un texte classique que l'enfant a intérêt à lire dans sa version intégrale. Cet album, supprimant tout suspense, risque fort d'en détourner son lecteur plutôt que de l'y inciter, tel que le souhaite l'éditeur. Illustration médiocre aux couleurs ternes. Pour piètres lecteurs qui ne recourront jamais à l'oeuvre.

Dix ans se sont écoulés depuis Le rêve de Jo March. À côté de Plumfield se dresse désormais une véritable petite université dans laquelle on vient de loin pour étudier. Si les garçons de Jo sont de solides gaillards égaillés de par le monde, ils n'oublient pas pour autant Plumfield ni bien sûr Mme Jo, plus que jamais de bon conseil dans les moments délicats : ceux où les coeurs encore tendres connaissent leurs premières épreuves !

La grande famille de Jo March

En pleine guerre de Sécession, alors que leur père est au front, les quatre filles de la famille March aident de leur mieux leur mère à tenir la maison. Meg, l'aînée, Jo, le garçon manqué, la douce Beth et l'incorrigible Amy traversent les épreuves et les événements heureux soudées et soutenues par leur fidèle ami Laurie et par son grand-père, le discret et bienveillant Monsieur Laurence.

Les Quatre filles du docteur March

L'infatigable Jo March a enfin la vie dont elle rêvait. Sa grande maison - presque aussi grande que son cour - est toujours ouverte aux enfants défavorisés. Que d'aventures, que de petits drames, que de situations drôles et cocasses ! Quand une bonne douzaine de jeunes garçons vivent ensemble sous la houlette d'une femme telle que Jo, on ne risque guère de s'ennuyer !

Les Quatre Filles du docteur March Tome 3

"Clear the lulla!" was the general cry on a bright December afternoon, when all the boys and girls of Harmony Village were out enjoying the first good snow of the season. Up and down three long coasts they went as fast as legs and sleds could carry them. One smooth path led into the meadow, and here the little folk congregated; one swept across the pond, where skaters were darting about like water-bugs; and the third, from the very top of the steep hill, ended abruptly at a rail fence on the high bank above the road. There was a group of lads and lasses sitting or leaning on this fence to rest after an exciting race, and, as they reposed, they amused themselves with criticising their mates, still absorbed in this most delightful of out-door sports.

"Here comes Frank Minot, looking as solemn as a judge, " cried one, as a tall fellow of sixteen spun by, with a set look about the mouth and a keen sparkle of the eyes, fixed on the distant goal with a do-or-die expression.

"Here's Molly Loo

And little Boo!"

sang out another; and down came a girl with flying hair, carrying a small boy behind her, so fat that his short legs stuck out from the sides, and his round face looked over her shoulder like a full moon.

"There's Gus Burton; doesn't he go it?" and such a very long boy whizzed by, that it looked almost as if his heels were at the top of the hill when his head was at the bottom!

"Hurrah for Ed Devlin!" and a general shout greeted a sweet-faced lad, with a laugh on his lips, a fine color on his brown cheek, and a gay word for every girl he passed.

Jack and Jill

Les quatre soeurs March sont devenues de vraies jeunes femmes ! Le Docteur March est enfin rentré, et trouve ses filles transformées. Il va devoir ré-apprendre à les connaître... ce qui n’est pas une mince affaire !

Le Dr March marie ses filles

Louisa May Alcott, née le 29 novembre 1832 à Germantown dans l'État de la Pennsylvanie et morte le 6 mars 1888 à Boston dans l'État du Massachusetts, est une romancière, nouvelliste, poète, diariste et épistolière américaine.
Louisa May Alcott est connue internationalement pour sa série de romans Little Women traduits en français sous le titre de Les Quatre Filles du docteur March.

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