Eden's Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father - John Matteson

Descriere Eden's Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father - John Matteson

Matteson looks at the personal life behind the beloved author of Little Women in this story that highlights the tense yet loving bond between Louisa May Alcott and her father, Bronson, and that relationships impact on her life and work. \n \nLouisa May Alcott is known universally. Yet during Louisa's youth, the famous Alcott was her father, Bronson--an eminent teacher and a friend of Emerson and Thoreau. He desired perfection, for the world and from his family. Louisa challenged him with her mercurial moods and yearnings for money and fame. The other prize she deeply coveted--her father's understanding--seemed hardest to win. This story of Bronson and Louisa's tense yet loving relationship adds dimensions to Louisa's life, her work, and the relationships of fathers and daughters.\n

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W. W. Norton & Company

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9780393333596

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1

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