This authoritative, accurate text of the first edition (1868-69) of Little Women is accompanied by textual variants and thorough explanatory annotations.
The novel incorporates some spiritual elements, such as deep discussions of God, religious revelations, and visions of ghosts. The story's themes include adoption, schooling, love, death, marriage, and familial secrets.
This book recounts the fascinating history of how the American Revolution came to Peter's small town, how he joined the revolutionary army at the age of twelve, and how he participated in the battles of Bunker Hill and Yorktown and ...
When Tess transfers to New England's premier boarding school, Thorn Abbey, she quickly falls for mysterious, brooding Max. Max is still mourning the death of his girlfriend, BeccaNand Becca's ghost is not quite ready to let him go.
The imaginative pairing of photographs and text also conjures up some of the same ambiguity, profundity, and freshness continually offered in Frost's poems.
She tells how whites came to blame the impoverished condition of people of color on their innate inferiority, how racialization became an important component of New England antebellum nationalism, and how former slaves actively participated ...