Flower Fables (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)

by Louisa May Alcott

Overview

At age 16, Louisa May Alcott wrote these fairy tales for Ralph Waldo Emerson’s daughter Ellen. Six years later, in 1855, the collection was published as her first children’s book. The magical stories include “The Frost King: or, The Power of Love,” “Eva’s Visit to Fairy-Land,” “The Flower’s Lesson,” and “Little Bud.”

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781411441095
Publisher:	Barnes & Noble
Publication date:	02/22/2011
Series:	Barnes & Noble Digital Library
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	198
Sales rank:	318,915
File size:	147 KB
Age Range:	3 Months to 18 Years

About the Author

Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888) was an American writer best known for her classic novel Little Women (1868-69), drawn from her own childhood. Personally educated by writers such as Emerson, Hawthorne, and Thoreau, she first gained literary success with Hospital Sketches (1863), based on her experiences as a nurse during the Civil War.  Her writing often deals with women’s issues in an honest, insightful manner.