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Behind a Mask: The Unknown Thrillers of Louisa May Alcott
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Louisa May Alcott, Madeleine B Stern (Introduction by)
These gruesome, passionate stories reveal a darker side of Alcott. Yet, in their mastery of suspense and psychological drama, they attest to the multifaceted genius of their creator. While Alcott wrote many of these "blood and thunder tales", editor Madeleine Stern selects Alcott's most unforgettable and thrilling stories for this publication. ...
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Old Books, Rare Friends: Two Literary Sleuths and Their Shared Passion
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"Old Books, Rare Friends" is a unique journey with two longtime friends and devoted readers. Rostenberg and Stern's dual memoir is filled with their passion for literary mysteries, which developed over their 50 years as dealers of rare books. Among other anecdotes, the women reveal how they discovered Louisa May Alcott's pseudonym and her ...
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Old Books in the Old World: Reminiscences of Book Buying Abroad
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Leona G Rostenberg, Madeleine B Stern
Join Rostenberg and Stern -- the "grand dames" of the antiquarian book-selling world -- as they recount their travels aboard steamships and down cobblestone streets in post-World War II Europe in search of rare books.
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L.M. Alcott: Signature of Reform
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Madeleine B Stern (Editor)
Beloved juvenile fiction writer and author of sensational thrillers, Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888) was also an ardent champion of reform movements in nineteenth-century America. Inspired by her parents' zeal for the reforms of their day and influenced by a network of other New Englanders determined to remedy the many ills in American society, the ...
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The Journals of Louisa May Alcott
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Louisa May Alcott, Madeleine B Stern (Editor), Daniel Shealy (Editor)
A companion volume to "The Selected Letters of Louisa May Alcott", the journals are here published in their original, unabridged version for the first time. Entries which have previously been censored or altered are reinstated and corrected, providing a wealth of new material. Alcott began her journal at a very young age and continued to write it ...
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Bookends: Two Women, One Enduring Friendship
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Leona G Rostenberg
In this dual memoir, aging friends and partners in a successful rare manuscript business that spanned half a century reminisce about coming of age in New York prior to World War II. Famous for discovering pulp stories by Louisa May Alcott, the two share the details of how they built their business in an environment that was less than sympathetic ...
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Louisa May Alcott
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Madeleine B Stern
First published in 1950, this is still the standard work on Alcott.
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Modern Magic
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Louisa May Alcott
Five of Alcott's racier short stories, originally published pseudonymously, including one set partly at a hashish party and another that deals with a woman's revenge.
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New Worlds in Old Books
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Leona G Rostenberg
The dynamic duo of New York's antiquarian book scene have written a unique and interesting series of essays on the creation of new fields of book collecting. With hard-won authority, the authors share an extraordinary career that spans over fifty years. Rostenberg and Stern were pioneers in developing collecting interest in such diverse fields as ...
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Feminist Alcott Pbk
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Louisa May Alcott, Madeleine B Stern (Editor)
A selecton of four thrillers that illuminate Alcott's feminist convictions, featuring colorful, passionate heroines who, ranging from thwarted and abused victims to triumphant conquerors, will beguile a new audience of modern readers.
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The Selected Letters of Louisa May Alcott
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Professor Joel Myerson (Editor), Louisa May Alcott, Madeleine B Stern (Introduction by)
A broad cross-section of letters from the correspondence of the creator of "Little Women". This collection provides an autobiography spanning 45 years and provides an account of Alcott's life and development as a writer.
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The selected letters of Louisa May Alcott
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Louisa M. Alcott, Madeleine B Stern, Joel Myerson, Daniel Shealy
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Books Have Their Fates
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Leona G. Rostenberg, Madeleine B. Stern
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Louisa May Alcott: A Biography: With an Introduction to the New Edition
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Madeleine B Stern
"This book contains all the reader could possibly wish to know about Louisa May Alcott. It will stand for a long time - perhaps permanently - as the authoritative book in its field." -- Chicago Tribune
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Louisa May Alcott Unmasked Pbk
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Louisa May Alcott, Madeleine B Stern (Editor)
Uncovered by literary sleuths Leona Rostenberg and Madeleine Stern, the 29 known thrillers by one of America's most adored juvenile fiction writers are now available in a single volume.
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The Life of Margaret Fuller: A Revised, Second Edition
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Madeleine B Stern
This biography of Margaret Fuller, first published nearly five decades ago, is now available in a new, expanded edition. Based on Fuller's journals and other writings, it records the life and experiences of a literary critic, radical educator and outspoken feminist who was deeply involved in the political spiritual and cultural ferment that ...
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Imprints on History: Book Publishers and American Frontiers
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Marble Woman: Unknown Th
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Louisa May Alcott, Madeleine B Stern (Editor), Fitzgerald (Editor)
Six years before she wrote Little Women, and in financial straits, Louisa May Alcott entered "Pauline's Passion and Punishment, " a novelette, in a newspaper contest. Not only did it win the $100 prize, but, published anonymously, it marked the first of the series of "blood & thunder tales" that would provide her livelihood for years. For as she ...
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Heads & Headlines: The Phrenological Fowlers
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Louisa May Alcott: Selected Fiction
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Louisa May Alcott, Daniel Shealy (Editor), Madeleine B Stern (Introduction by)
Reveals new and fascinating dimensions of Alcott's work Here, collected for the first time in one volume, is a grand selection of Louisa May Alcott's many creative forays into the genres of romanticism, Gothicism, and realism. Written between 1852 and 1888, these works were chosen to show Alcott at her writing best. Louisa May Alcott: Selected ...
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Louisa May Alcott Unmasked: Collected Thrillers
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Antiquarian Bookselling in the United States: A History from the Origins to the 1940s
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Old Books, Rare Friends
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"Old Books, Rare Friends" is a unique journey with two longtime friends and devoted readers. Rostenberg and Stern's dual memoir is filled with their passion for literary mysteries, which developed over their 50 years as dealers of rare books. Among other anecdotes, the women reveal how they discovered Louisa May Alcott's pseudonym and her ...
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Louisa May Alcott: Selected Fiction
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Daniel Shealy, Louisa May Alcott, Madeleine B Stern (Editor)
Ranging from excerpts from the "Little Women" trilogy to experimental short stories, juvenile fiction, and autobiographic tales, this collection reveals the range of Alcott's imagination and her constantly shifting interests in both subject and style.
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Old & Rare: Thirty Years in the Book Business
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