Louisa Libri GmbH The Lightbound Library- Louisa May Alcott's Christmas Stories

Louisa May Alcott loved Christmas, and returned to it again and again - but she scattered her holiday tales through a lifetime of magazines and story-books rather than gathering them into one. This volume brings eight of them together for the first time.A spoiled girl dreams her way into the joy of giving. A poor one's small kindness comes quietly back to her at her hour of need. The very bells of the city look down and take account of the season. A country Christmas warms a houseful of cousins; a boy earns his father's Christmas turkey; and in more than one home a Christmas is saved, or made, by a single loving heart.These are Alcott in her gentlest key - the same spirit that fills Little Women, given a winter's worth of firelight. Warm, funny, and quietly wise, they carry one lesson between them: the gift given is worth more than the gift got. Complete and unabridged, behind an original cover painting.