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|  Short Stories
Louisa May Alcott | | Our Price | $2.00 (Table of Contents) | | Availability: | Unavailable
| | (Out of Stock) | | Format: | Book | | Grade Level: | 9 and Up (ages 14 and up) | | ISBN: | 0486290638 | | Page Count: | 64 | | Dimensions: | 5 3/16 x 8 1/4 |
Poignant collection of 5 stories — based in part on the author's experiences as a nurse during the Civil War — includes "A Night," a moving account of her encounter with a dying soldier; "My Contraband," a gripping tale of vengeance involving a Civil War nurse, her Confederate patient and his former slave; plus 3 other titles.
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Choice collection of 13 stories includes "Life in the Iron Mills" by Rebecca Harding Davis, Zora Neale Hurston's "Sweat," plus superb fiction by Kate Chopin, Willa Cather, Edith Wharton, many others.
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| |  Civil War Hospital Sketches
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Written by the author of Little Women during the winter of 1862-63, these memoirs reveal the realities of battlefield medicine as well as the tentative first steps of women in military service.
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|  An Old-Fashioned Girl
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by Louisa May Alcott
Timeless, heartwarming tale of the four March sisters — Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy — and their home life, loves, and adventures during the Civil War era. Complete and unabridged.
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|  Uncle Tom's Cabin
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The moving abolitionist novel that fueled the fire of the human rights debate in 1852 and melodramatically condemned the institution of slavery through powerfully realized characters.
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| |  Lilacs and Other Stories
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From the author of The Awakening comes this collection, which features 24 distinctive tales of Southern life, filled with fascinating characters, idiosyncratic customs, and sometimes shocking details.
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