Louisa M. Alcott's Writings.
Reading edition
THE LITTLE WOMEN SERIES.
LITTLE WOMEN; or Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy. With Illustrations. 16mo. $1.50.
LITTLE MEN. Life at Plumfield with Jo's Boys. With Illustrations. 16mo. $1.50.
JO'S BOYS AND HOW THEY TURNED OUT. A Sequel to "Little Men." With new Portrait of Author. 16mo. $1.50.
AN OLD-FASHIONED GIRL. With Illustrations. 16mo. $1.50.
EIGHT COUSINS; or, The Aunt-Hill. Illustrated. 16mo. $1.50.
ROSE IN BLOOM. A Sequel to "Eight Cousins." Illustrated. 16mo. $1.50.
UNDER THE LILACS. With Illustrations. 16mo. $1.50.
JACK AND JILL. A Village Story. Illustrated. 16mo. $1.50.
The above eight volumes, uniformly bound in cloth, gilt, in box, $12.00.
THE SPINNING-WHEEL SERIES.
SPINNING-WHEEL STORIES. With twelve initial Illustrations. 16mo. $1.25.
SILVER PITCHERS: and Independence. 16mo. $1.25.
PROVERB STORIES. 16mo. $1.25.
A GARLAND FOR GIRLS. With Illustrations by Jessie McDermott. 16mo. $1.25.
The above four volumes, uniformly bound in cloth, gilt, in box, $5.00.
AUNT JO'S SCRAP BAG.
MY BOYS. Illustrated. 16mo. $1.00.
SHAWL-STRAPS. Illustrated. 16mo. $1.00.
CUPID AND CHOW-CHOW. Illustrated. 16mo. $1.00.
MY GIRLS. Illustrated. 16mo. $1.00.
JIMMY'S CRUISE IN THE PINAFORE, ETC. Illustrated. 16mo. $1.00.
AN OLD-FASHIONED THANKSGIVING. Illustrated. 16mo. $1.00.
The above six volumes, uniformly bound in cloth, gilt, in box, $6.00.
LULU'S LIBRARY.
Three volumes. Each, $1.00. The set uniformly bound in cloth, gilt, in box, $3.00.
NOVELS, ETC. Uniform with "Little Women Series."
HOSPITAL SKETCHES, and Camp and Fireside Stories. With Illustrations. 16mo. $1.50.
WORK: A Story of Experience. Illustrated by Sol Eytinge. 16mo. $1.50.
MOODS. A Novel. 16mo. $1.50.
A MODERN MEPHISTOPHELES, AND A WHISPER IN THE DARK. 16mo. $1.50.
The above four volumes, uniformly bound in cloth, gilt, in box, $6.00.
COMIC TRAGEDIES. Written by "Jo" and "Meg," and acted by the "Little Women," with a Foreword by "Meg." Portraits, etc. 16mo. $1.50.
LIFE OF MISS ALCOTT. Louisa May Alcott: Her Life, Letters, and Journals. Edited by Ednah D. Cheney. Photogravure Portraits, etc. 16mo. $1.50.
LITTLE WOMEN. Illustrated edition.
Embellished with nearly two hundred Characteristic Illustrations from Original Designs drawn expressly for this edition of this noted American Classic. Small quarto, cloth, gilt, $2.50.
Little, Brown, and Company, Publishers, 254 Washington Street, Boston.
BY TWO OF THE "LITTLE WOMEN."
COMIC TRAGEDIES.
Written by "Jo" and "Meg," and acted by the "Little Women." With a Foreword by "Meg," Portraits of "Jo" and "Meg," and a view of the house in which they lived. 16mo. Cloth. Uniform with Miss Alcott's books. Price, $1.50.
In the good old times, when "Little Women" worked and played together, the big garret was the scene of many dramatic revels. After a long day of teaching, sewing, and "helping mother," the greatest delight of the girls was to transform themselves into queens, knights, and cavaliers of high degree, and ascend into a world of fancy and romance. Cinderella's godmother waved her wand, and the dismal room became a fairyland. Flowers bloomed, forests arose, music sounded, and lovers exchanged their vows by moonlight. Nothing was too ambitious to attempt,—armor, gondolas, harps, towers, and palaces grew as if by magic, and wonderful scenes of valor and devotion were enacted before admiring audiences.
Jo, of course, played the villains, ghosts, bandits, and disdainful queens; for her tragedy-loving soul delighted in the lurid parts, and no drama was perfect in her eyes without a touch of the demonic or supernatural. Meg loved the sentimental roles, the tender maiden with the airy robes and flowing locks, who made impossible sacrifices for ideal lovers, or the cavalier, singing soft serenades and performing lofty acts of gallantry and prowess. Amy was the fairy sprite, while Beth enacted the page or messenger when the scene required their aid.
From the little stage library, still extant, the following plays have been selected as fair examples of the work of these children of sixteen and seventeen. With some slight changes and omissions, they remain as written more than forty years ago by Meg and Jo, so dear to the hearts of many other "Little Women."
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