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...trespass sign for rabbits. The book was pounced on immediately by the upholders of the well-made novel and 19th century gentility. Most critics found it shapeless, and vulgar. "If Mr. Clemens cannot think of something better to tell our pure-minded lads and lasses," said Louisa May Alcott, "he had best stop writing for them." Such scoldings came despite Mark Twain's prepublication agreement to eliminate references to blasphemy, bad odors, dead cats, and to change the phrase "in a sweat" to "worrying...
CONCORD is a bit farther down the road, past vegetable and cider stands and Louisa May Alcott's house...
CHILDREN'S THEATER (NBC, 6:30-7:30 p.m.). Sixty-three young dancers from the Children's Ballet Theater in a new version of Louisa May Alcott's Little Women, choreographed by Christine Neubert. The original score is by Robert Maxwell; Geraldine Page narrates...
...MARILYNN ALCOTT Kansas City...
...future of New England letters to take the risk. The company at first leaned heavily on law-and textbooks, publishing some of the most famous U.S. legal treatises, such as Oliver Wendell Holmes's The Common Law. Gradually it moved into general literature, publishing Louisa May Alcott, Edward Everett Hale, Emily Dickinson and William Prescott's histories. Admiral A. T. Mahan's The Influence of Sea Power Upon History remolded military thought when it appeared in 1890. Among Little, Brown's current authors are Samuel Eliot Morison, J. D. Salinger, Bertrand Russell, William Manchester, Peter...