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Sto caricando le informazioni... Perilous Play, And, Lost in a Pyramid or the Mummy's Curse (Dodo Press)di Louisa May Alcott
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Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888) was a prolific and multi-talented American writer. Amongst her works are passionate, fiery novels, moralistic and wholesome stories for children, philosophical essays and letters. Her overwhelming success however, was with Little Women: or Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy (1868), a semiautobiographical account of her childhood years with her three sisters in Concord, Massachusetts. Part Two, or Part Second, also known as Good Wives (1869) followed the March sisters into adulthood and their respective marriages. Little Men (1871) detailed the characters and ways of Alcott's nephews who lived with her at Orchard House in Concord, and Jo's Boys (1886) completed the "March Family Saga." Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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“Perilous Play” is about the effects of taking drugs. The group of characters involved are bored, until the doctor among them offers what first appear to be bonbons, but the sweet-looking items in fact contain hashish.
I expected the tale to adopt a nineteenth-century approach of, “Just say no!” To point it does, yet in another way it hints that maybe it’s worth a try! The story shows both the danger of taking drugs and the potential benefits and, as a result, the narrative does not prove predictable as I suspected it would.
“The Mummy’s Curse”, as the title suggests, is a dark tale. This one is so short that I can’t say too much without giving the whole game away, but despite its shortness, the author packs in enough detail and suspense to make it an engaging story.
Together, these two tales again confirm for me the extent of Louisa May Alcott’s talent and versatility as a writer. (