Jack and Jill: A New England Village Story
Sep 2026 · Aeneas Press
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Complete and unabridged, with 53 full-page plates by Winslow Homer, Albert Bierstadt and George Inness. A sled accident on a December hill puts two friends on their backs for months — one in a bed by the window, one across the road — and the village children arrange their lives around the two invalids. Alcott wrote it in 1880 from an accident to a neighbour's boy, and built the book around the slow work of getting well. Jack's leg and Jill's back mend at different rates, and so do the tempers. Fifty-three plates by painters including Bierstadt and Homer carry the mountain scenery that frames the village's long winter of recovery.
Complete and unabridged, with 53 full-page plates by Winslow Homer, Albert Bierstadt and George Inness. A sled accident on a December hill puts two friends on their backs for months — one in a bed by the window, one across the road — and the village children arrange their lives around the two inv...
About the author
Louisa May Alcott (1832–1888) supported her family from girlhood — sewing, teaching, service as a Civil War nurse until typhoid nearly killed her — and wrote anonymous thrillers for the story papers before Little Women made her the household name she had not wanted. She never married, kept her sister's daughter, and died two days after her father.
Louisa May Alcott (1832–1888) supported her family from girlhood — sewing, teaching, service as a Civil War nurse until typhoid nearly killed her — and wrote anonymous thrillers for the story papers before Little Women made her the household name she had not wanted. She never married, kept her si...
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