…what splendid dreams young people build upon a word, and how bitter is the pain when the bright bubbles burst.
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About Louisa May Alcott
Louisa May Alcott was a 19th-century American novelist. Louisa May Alcott was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet best known for writing the novel Little Women (1868) and its sequels Good Wives (1869), Little Men (1871), and Jo's Boys (1886). Raised in New England by her transcendentalist parents, Abigail May and Amos Bronson Alcott, she grew up among many well-known intellectuals of the day, including Margaret Fuller, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry David Thoreau. Read more on Wikipedia →
Themes
- Dreams — Aspirations, visions, and the world of the subconscious