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Behind a Mask: A Short Story Collection
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Series: Dover Thrift Editions: Short Stories
Classic FictionGeneral FictionHistorical Fiction
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ISBN10: 0486842908
ISBN13: 9780486842905
Publisher: Dover Publications
Published: Mar 18 2020
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.35
Height: 0.60 Width: 4.90 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780486842905
Publisher: Dover Publications
Published: Mar 18 2020
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.35
Height: 0.60 Width: 4.90 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
The author of Little Women and other beloved classics, Louisa May Alcott grew up in a community of New England transcendentalists that included Thoreau and Emerson. Because her learned but impractical father was a poor provider, she supported her family by writing magazine stories that were often published anonymously.
This collection reveals the other Alcott, featuring Behind a Mask and Pauline's Passion and Punishment, thrilling tales of seduction, betrayal, and murder that strike a markedly different tone and characterization from Alcott's best-known work. Other selections include two pieces from Hospital Sketches, the author's fictionalized accounts of her Civil War nursing experiences; My Contraband, a tale of vengeance involving a Civil War nurse, her Confederate patient, and his former slave; Happy Women, concerning four spinsters with a positive attitude toward their marital status; and How I Went Out to Service, an autobiographical sketch of a young woman's pursuit of financial independence.
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