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Short Stories
Short Stories
Author: Louisa May Alcott
Before she wrote Little Women — one of the most popular books for children ever written — Louisa May Alcott (1832–1888) served during the Civil War as a volunteer nurse in Washington, D.C. Drawing on that episode in her life, she produced Hospital Sketches, a fictionalized account of her experie...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780486290638
ISBN-10: 0486290638
Publication Date: 6/7/1996
Pages: 64
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Publisher: Dover Publications
Book Type: Paperback
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This is a very brief sampling of her stories. There are two samples from her Hospital Sketches based upon her nursing experiences during the Civil War. My Contraband, also a Civil War nursing tale has a bizarre twist on vengence; it almost seems to lay a foundation for some of the Civil War tales of Ambrose Bierce.


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