Eden's Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her FatherW. W. Norton & Company, 13 août 2010 - 512 pages Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography Louisa 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. |
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... father ] Bronson , their family and their times , Matteson has provided us with a valuable context for appreciating that enduring masterpiece Little Women . " -Martin Rubin , Los Angeles Times " A splendid new dual biography . . . [ a ] ...
... father ] Bronson , their family and their times , Matteson has provided us with a valuable context for appreciating that enduring masterpiece Little Women . " -Martin Rubin , Los Angeles Times " A splendid new dual biography . . . [ a ] ...
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... family's patriarch is almost absent from the narrative. Even when Mr. March at last makes his grand entrance in chapter 22 of the novel, almost the first words devoted to him are, “Mr. March became invisible ... .”9 Indeed, to examine ...
... family's patriarch is almost absent from the narrative. Even when Mr. March at last makes his grand entrance in chapter 22 of the novel, almost the first words devoted to him are, “Mr. March became invisible ... .”9 Indeed, to examine ...
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... family, that the philo- sophical Alcott maintained firm contact with the physical world. His hands were rough. His manners were not. In his youth, when he was old enough to get off the farm, Alcott traveled five times through the South ...
... family, that the philo- sophical Alcott maintained firm contact with the physical world. His hands were rough. His manners were not. In his youth, when he was old enough to get off the farm, Alcott traveled five times through the South ...
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... Alcott's second daughter was too young to attend her father's ideal acad- emy at the temple. Nevertheless, her relationship with her father, acted out within an unusually close and interdependent family, was to be made still closer by a ...
... Alcott's second daughter was too young to attend her father's ideal acad- emy at the temple. Nevertheless, her relationship with her father, acted out within an unusually close and interdependent family, was to be made still closer by a ...
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... Alcott . Around the same time he took the name Alcott , he ceased calling ... family some time to work out the details of their name , there was little ... Alcott's life . Bronson considered the natural surroundings of his youth ...
... Alcott . Around the same time he took the name Alcott , he ceased calling ... family some time to work out the details of their name , there was little ... Alcott's life . Bronson considered the natural surroundings of his youth ...
Table des matières
chapter eleven | 260 |
chapter twelve | 285 |
chapter thirteen | 308 |
chapter fourteen | 334 |
chapter fifteen | 355 |
chapter sixteen | 400 |
Notes | 429 |
Bibliography | 465 |
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