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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 Paulines Passion and Punishment, thrilling tales of seduction, betrayal, and murder that strike a markedly different tone and characterization from Alcotts best-known work. Other selections include two pieces from Hospital Sketches, the authors 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 womans pursuit of financial ind
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