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A Modern Cinderella; Or, The Little Old Shoe, and Other Stories
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This collection by Louisa May Alcott, author of Little Women, gathers short stories including the title tale, which reworks the Cinderella story in a nineteenth-century American setting. It suits young readers and others interested in classic short fiction.
Louisa May Alcott
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. Encouraged by her family, Alcott began writing from an early age.
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