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Flower Fables: Fairy Tales and Nature Stories from the Author of Little Women
Paperback
Classic FictionGeneral Fiction
ISBN13: 9781617209604
Publisher: SMK Books
Published: May 3 2013
Pages: 88
Weight: 0.32
Height: 0.21 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
Louisa May Alcott's Flower Fables is a charming early collection of fairy stories, flower tales, and moral fables from the author who would later become famous for Little Women.
First published in 1854, Flower Fables was Alcott's first book and began as a group of stories written for Ellen Emerson, the daughter of Ralph Waldo Emerson. Long before Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy entered American literature, Alcott was already shaping imaginative stories filled with fairies, elves, flowers, children, kindness, courage, self-command, and moral growth. These tales belong to the nineteenth-century tradition of children's fantasy and domestic moral storytelling, but they also show the tenderness, discipline, and sympathy for young readers that would later make Alcott one of the most beloved writers of classic children's literature.
In these fanciful stories, the natural world becomes a place of instruction and enchantment. Flowers, birds, insects, and fairy creatures appear not merely as decoration, but as part of a moral landscape in which vanity, selfishness, generosity, patience, and affection are gently tested. Flower Fables is especially suitable for readers of classic children's fiction, fairy tales, nineteenth-century American literature, nature stories, and the early work of Louisa May Alcott. It also offers libraries and collectors an important point of entry into Alcott's development before Little Women, preserving the young author's first published book and the imaginative roots of her later fiction.
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