Louisa May Alcott's Christmas Stories

The gift given is worth more than the gift got.

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About this edition

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.

In this volume

• A Christmas Dream, and How It Came True
• Tilly's Christmas
• Tessa's Surprises
• What the Bells Saw and Said
• A Country Christmas
• Patty's Patchwork
• A Christmas Turkey, and How It Came
• How It All Happened

Details

• Louisa May Alcott
• Solocosmo Press
• The Lightbound Library
• Cover painting, Winter Gift, by Jessica von Braun
• Paperback, 6 × 9, 156 pages