This book contains four short stories by Louisa May Alcott A Modern Cinderella, Debbys Debut, The Brothers, and Nellys Hospital.A short story published in 1860 considered "modern"? Louisa May Alcott bestows a truly amusing and thoroughly modern retelling of The Brothers Grimms Cinderella. Little Women is certainly Louisa May Alcotts best known book, but dont miss her refreshing version of this classic fairy tale, A Modern Cinderella. Alcott pokes fun throughout, describing a "cool blonde" as "having many cares those happy little housewives never know." What modern gal doesnt appreciate that those old, worn out shoes are dependable and will take you farforget impractical glass slipper or stilettos! Decide which version you prefer.Extract A MODERN CINDERELLA OR, THE LITTLE OLD SHOEHOW IT WAS LOST Among green New England hills stood an ancient house, manygabled, mossyroofed, and quaintly built, but picturesque and pleasant to the eye for a brook ran babbling through the orchard that encompassed it about, a gardenplat stretched upward to the whispering birches on the slope, and patriarchal elms stood sentinel upon the lawn, as they had stood almost a century ago, when the Revolution rolled that way and found them young.One summer morning, when the air was full of country sounds, of mowers in the meadow, blackbirds by the brook, and the low of kine upon the hillside, the old house wore its cheeriest aspect, and a certain humble history began."Nan!""Yes, Di."And a head,...

Binding: Paperback;84 pages; Publisher: Les prairies numériques; Classification: N/A; Weight: 242.47 g; Dimensions: N/A

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