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Mountain-Laurel and Maidenhair: A Classic Louisa May Alcott Story of Friendship and Kindness
Hardcover
Classic FictionGeneral Fiction
ISBN13: 9781515426011
Publisher: SMK Books
Published: Apr 3 2018
Pages: 38
Weight: 0.53
Height: 0.25 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
Mountain-Laurel and Maidenhair is a gentle Louisa May Alcott story of friendship, character, health, and moral growth in the New England countryside. Emily, a delicate city girl recovering in the country, meets Becky, a plain, capable farm girl whose strength, kindness, and quiet dignity gradually change Emily's understanding of beauty, usefulness, and happiness. Around them, Alcott builds a small but memorable world of mountain air, flowers, work, illness, sympathy, and the refining influence of honest affection.
Written late in Alcott's career, the story belongs naturally beside her fiction for younger readers while retaining the moral seriousness and domestic observation that made her work durable beyond its original audience. Like Little Women, An Old-Fashioned Girl, and Eight Cousins, Mountain-Laurel and Maidenhair is interested in how girls become strong, generous, and self-respecting, not through grand adventure but through daily habits, companionship, and attention to the claims of others. The result is a brief, graceful work of classic American fiction with strong appeal for readers of Louisa May Alcott, nineteenth-century women's writing, children's classics, and New England literature.
Keywords: Louisa May Alcott; Mountain-Laurel and Maidenhair; classic American fiction; nineteenth century women writers; children's classic literature; New England fiction; girls friendship story
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