{"product_id":"the-journals-of-louisa-may-joel-myerson-9780820319506","title":"The Journals of Louisa May Alcott","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom her eleventh year to the month of her death at age fifty-five, Louisa May Alcott kept copious journals. She never intended them to be published, but the insights they provide into her remarkable life are invaluable. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAlcott grew up in a genteel but impoverished household, surrounded by the literary and philosophical elite of nineteenth-century New England, including Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and Nathaniel Hawthorne. Like her fictional alter ego, Jo March, she was a free spirit who longed for independence, yet she dutifully supported her parents and three sisters with her literary efforts. In the journals are to be found hints of Alcott's surprisingly complex persona as well as clues to her double life as an author not only of \"high\" literature but also of serial thrillers and Gothic romances. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAssociate editor Madeleine B. Stern has added an in-depth introduction to \u003ci\u003eThe Journals of Louisa May Alcott\u003c\/i\u003e, the only unabridged edition of Alcott's private diaries.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Louisa May Alcott\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0820319503\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780820319506\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Georgia Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/01\/1997\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 400\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.35lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/25\/1998 pg. 24","brand":"Louisa May Alcott","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43992500764927,"sku":"9780820319506","price":38.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_a9c7331a-2653-4a08-b828-fab950822ca5.jpg?v=1683319281","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-journals-of-louisa-may-joel-myerson-9780820319506","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}