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A Garland for Girls: Classic Flower Stories of Girlhood, Kindness, Courage, and Character
Hardcover
ISBN13: 9781515426721
Publisher: SMK Books
Published: Apr 3 2018
Pages: 156
Weight: 0.93
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
Louisa May Alcott gathers a set of warm, moral, and flower-linked stories about girls learning courage, kindness, self-command, generosity, and independence. In A Garland for Girls, each tale is connected with a flower and shaped around the inner growth of young women as they face illness, vanity, poverty, disappointment, family duty, friendship, work, and the first demands of maturity.
Written with Alcott's familiar sympathy for girls becoming thoughtful, capable, and morally strong, the collection blends domestic fiction, children's literature, sentimental storytelling, and practical life lessons. These stories are gentler than Alcott's sensation fiction but still reveal her sharp interest in character, discipline, sacrifice, and the quiet power of girls who learn to think and act for themselves. The floral framework gives the book charm and unity while allowing each story to explore a different virtue, trial, or turning point.
First published in 1888, A Garland for Girls remains appealing for readers of classic girls' fiction, nineteenth-century children's literature, moral stories, women authors, and Alcott's wider body of work beyond Little Women. It is especially suited to readers who enjoy domestic classics built around family feeling, personal growth, kindness, resilience, and the education of the heart.
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