MOODS, Louisa M. Alcott, 1864, Hardcover, Original Cloth

Description: MOODS, Louisa M. Alcott, 1864, Hardcover, Original Cloth Hardcover book with no DJ. Ex-library with usual library markings. Binding tight but cracked at inside front and back covers. Worn around the corners, edges and spine. Spine, corners bumped. Top page edges dusty. Gold imprinting on front cover and spine is faded. Some green tape across the top and bottom spine. Library markings on spine. Some tears on the back cover. Inside front cover: Library pocket and bookseller sticker. Tape ghosting on inside front and back end pages bottom edges. Some black ink markings on the bottom edge of the first couple of pages. B&W drawing frontispiece. Tissue between frontis and title page in VG condition. Embossed stamp mark on title page. After the library markings, the text pages are clean, but yellowed.4.75" x 7". 297 pages with B&W illustrations. Moods, Louisa May Alcott's first novel was published in 1864, four years before the best-selling Little Women. The novel unconventionally presents a "little woman," a true-hearted abolitionist spinster, and a fallen Cuban beauty, their lives intersecting in Alcott's first major depiction of the "woman problem."Sylvia Yule, the heroine of Moods, is a passionate tomboy who yearns for adventure. The novel opens as she embarks on a river camping trip with her brother and his two friends, both of whom fall in love with her. These rival suitors, close friends, are modeled on Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry Daniel Thoreau. Aroused, but still "moody" and inexperienced, Sylvia marries the wrong man. In the rest of the novel, Alcott attempts to resolve the dilemma she has created and leave her readers asking whether, in fact, there is a place for a woman such as Sylvia in a man's world. In 1882, eighteen years after the original publication, Alcott revised and republished the novel. Her own literary success and the changes she helped forge in women's lives now allowed her heroine to meet, as Alcott said, "a wiser if less romantic fate than in the former edition." This new volume contains the complete text of the 1864 Moods and Alcott's revisions for the 1882 version, along with explanatory notes by the editor. A critical introduction places Moods in the context of Alcott's own literary history and in the larger historical setting of nineteenth-century society and culture.

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