Moods

by Louisa May Alcott

Overview

Moods, Louisa May Alcott's first novel was published in 1864, four years before the best-selling Little Women. The novel unconventionally presents a "little woman," a true-hearted abolitionist spinster, and a fallen Cuban beauty, their lives intersecting in Alcott's first major depiction of the "woman problem."

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781636370491
Publisher:	Bibliotech Press
Publication date:	08/31/2020
Pages:	198
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.63(d)

About the Author

Louisa May Alcott was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet best known as the author of the novel Little Women and its sequels Little Men and Jo's Boys.

Sarah Elbert is a professor of history at the State University of New York, Binghamton. She is the author of A Hunger for Home: Louisa May Alcott's Place in American Culture (Rutgers University Press, 1987).

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Introduction
Notes to Introduction
Selected Bibliography
A Note on the Text
Moods, 1864
Review of Moods by Henry James
Selection from Moods, 1882
Explanatory Notes

Editorial Reviews

Alcott's romantic but serious first novel is a landmark not only in her own literary history, but in the history of American feminist fiction.

Alison Lurie