An exciting boon to the countless readers and scholars of Alcott's beloved novel, Daniel Shealy's excellent Little Women: An Annotated Edition provides the biographical, cultural and even linguistic context of that novel's making while it refreshes and enriches our experience of its enduring power. -- Brenda Wineapple, author of White Heat: The Friendship of Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson
Daniel Shealy has edited or co-edited eleven books about Louisa May Alcott, including The Journals of Louisa May Alcott. He is Professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.
[Shealy has] set out to contextualize and illustrate the social,
political, historical and literary realities that underpin this
wonderful and radical novel… What makes the book so glorious [is]
the illustrations. From the earliest frontispieces to the green
playbill for the Concord Players, the balance of text to image is
well judged… For those of us who have an abiding affection [for
Little Women], it’s an utter treat.
*The Times*
Elegant…the pictures are so gorgeous and the copious notes so
interesting… Even for Alcott diehards who know the backstory, there
is plenty to savor.
*Times Literary Supplement*
This annotated edition of Little Women is practically perfect. The
book is beautiful, the scholarship impressive and consistently
interesting, and the novel itself one of the most amazing products
of American literary history. Although I loved Alcott’s novel
before I picked up this new edition, which might bias my
evaluation, Shealy’s Little Women: An Annotated Edition is an easy
book to love, read, and get lost in.
*Children’s Literature*
A Little Women fanatic’s dream… Shealy’s annotations offer much
help with allusions to now-forgotten books and arcane language…
Many readers will find Shealy’s biographical details helpful in
understanding this most favorite of books… [A] lovingly assembled
edition.
*PopMatters*
[A] handsomely produced and exhaustively annotated edition… Richly
presented, this Harvard Belknap edition offers a multifaceted
picture of American life… It also makes a fine gift book for fans
of Louisa May Alcott’s classic.
*Choice*
[This edition] is not geared simply to scholars but is equally
inviting to the general reader, breathing new life and relevance
into an enduring American classic.
*Library Journal*
An exciting boon to the countless readers and scholars of Alcott’s
beloved novel, Daniel Shealy’s excellent Little Women: An Annotated
Edition provides the biographical, cultural and even linguistic
context of that novel’s making while it refreshes and enriches our
experience of its enduring power.
*Brenda Wineapple, author of White Heat: The Friendship of Emily
Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson*
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