On Picket Duty, and Other Tales

by Louisa May Alcott

Overview

Thorn was a Massachusetts volunteer; a man who seemed too early old, too early embittered by some cross, for though grim of countenance, rough of speech, cold of manner, a keen observer would have soon discovered traces of a deeper, warmer nature hidden, behind the repellent front he turned upon the world. A true New Englander, thoughtful, acute, reticent, and opin-ionated; yet earnest withal, intensely patriotic, and often humorous, despite a touch of Puritan austerity.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781617209932
Publisher:	Wilder Publications
Publication date:	05/03/2013
Pages:	86
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.21(d)

About the Author

Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888) was an American novelist and poet best known as the author of the novel Little Women and its sequels Little Men and Jo's Boys. Raised by her transcendentalist parents, she grew up among many of the well-known intellectuals of the day such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry David Thoreau. Little Women is loosely based on Alcott's childhood experiences with her three sisters.