This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable price, in an attractive volume so that everyone can enjoy them.

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Product Description: A passionate supporter of abolition and women's rights, Louisa May Alcott championed these causes in gothic tales of interracial romance and in newspaper articles published during the Civil War. Drawn from her service as a nurse in a Union hospital as well as from her radical abolitionist activities, these writings allow Alcott to comment boldly on unstable racial identities, interracial sex and marriage, armed slave rebellion, war, and the links between the bondage of slaves and the conditions of white womanhood...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Examines the life of the nineteenth century American writer and feminist, discusses her major novels and stories, and looks at the issues of her day