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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.… (altro)
La Alcott più nota al pubblico, quella delle "Piccole donne", qui ci appare un'autrice moderna dalla voce più autentica. La famiglia e i valori esaltati nelle altre opere, i quadretti idilliaci con tanto di focolare domestico, pargoli e fornelli qui lasciano il posto ai dubbi e ai conflitti vissuti da una donna, Sylvia, insofferente alle regole e ai principi imposti dall'educazione del tempo. Scritto nel 1865, quattro anni prima di "Piccole donne", fu oggetto di critiche pesanti e considerato naturalmente sconveniente. Venne contestato soprattutto all'autrice di avere osato trattare il tema dell'infedeltà coniugale essendo nubile, del resto non poteva che suscitare sdegno la coraggiosa critica della Alcott all' etica puritana dell'America di metà ottocento. Pubblicato per la prima volta in Italia, il libro è arricchito da un'interessante nota critica di Henry James. ( )
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The room fronted the west, but a black cloud, barred with red, robbed the hour of twilight's tranquil charm.
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Love and God's help can work all miracles since it has worked this one so well, answered Sylvia, with a look Adam might have owned, so full of courage, hope, and ardor was it as she turned from the painted romance to the more beautiful reality, to live, not dream, a long and happy life, unmarred by the moods that nearly wrecked her youth; for now she had learned to live by principle, not impulse, and this made it both sweet and possible for love and duty to go hand in hand. (the end of the 1881 revision)
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.
Scritto nel 1865, quattro anni prima di "Piccole donne", fu oggetto di critiche pesanti e considerato naturalmente sconveniente. Venne contestato soprattutto all'autrice di avere osato trattare il tema dell'infedeltà coniugale essendo nubile, del resto non poteva che suscitare sdegno la coraggiosa critica della Alcott all' etica puritana dell'America di metà ottocento.
Pubblicato per la prima volta in Italia, il libro è arricchito da un'interessante nota critica di Henry James. ( )