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Lulu's Library Vol. 2: Classic Fairy Stories for Children
Paperback
ISBN13: 9781617209246
Publisher: SMK Books
Published: Apr 15 2013
Pages: 116
Weight: 0.42
Height: 0.28 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
Lulu's Library Vol. 2 gathers eleven short fairy stories by Louisa May Alcott, offering a charming collection of moral fantasy, nature imagery, and imaginative children's fiction. Filled with fairies, water spirits, flowers, mermaids, brownies, princesses, and enchanted transformations, the volume shows Alcott writing in a lighter, more fanciful mode than the domestic realism of Little Women, while retaining her familiar concern with kindness, courage, humility, and good conduct.
Many of these tales were first written when Alcott was young and later gathered for child readers, giving the collection a distinctive mixture of youthful invention and mature literary care. The stories move through fairyland, woodland, garden, and sea, using fantasy not merely as ornament but as a way to dramatise lessons of generosity, vanity, patience, loyalty, and sympathy. Project Gutenberg classifies the work under fairy tales and children's stories, which is exactly the right discovery frame for this SMK edition.
For readers of classic children's literature, Louisa May Alcott, nineteenth-century fairy stories, and gentle moral fantasy, Lulu's Library Vol. 2 remains a delightful example of Victorian-era storytelling for the young: imaginative, sincere, and deeply rooted in the belief that wonder and character belong together.
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