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Flower Fables

Louisa May Alcott

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Flower Fables is Louisa May Alcott’s first book, penned at 16 for Ralph Waldo Emerson’s daughter, Ellen.

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Sadly Rose-Leaf led Eva away, saying, "Lily-Bosom shall have a grave tonight beneath our fairest blossoms, and you shall see that gentleness and love are prized far above gold or beauty, here in Fairy-Land. Come now to the Flower Palace, and see the Fairy Court."

Beneath green arches, bright with birds and flowers, beside singing waves, went Eva into a lofty hall. The roof of pure white lilies rested on pillars of green clustering vines, while many-colored blossoms threw their bright shadows on the walls, as they danced below in the deep green moss, and their low, sweet voices sounded softly through the sunlit palace, while the rustling leaves kept time.

Beside the throne stood Eva, and watched the lovely forms around her, as they stood, each little band in its own color, with glistening wings, and flower wands.

Suddenly the music grew louder and sweeter, and the Fairies knelt, and bowed their heads, as on through the. . . Read More

Community Reviews

J'ai lu ce recueil de contes dans le cadre du Parcours victorien (et aussi parce que je l'avais acheté pendant ma visite de la maison de Louisa May Alcott à Concord).
Comme en parallèle, j'ai lu le deuxième tome d'ACOTAR, je me dis que ça a probablement rendu ma lecture des Flower Fables un peu pâle

A little heavy too on the morals for me and the writing was a bit overwrought.

I read this through a podcast called Sleepy Bookshelf! These were sweet little stories all based around flowers and the natural world. Some of them had some surprisingly dark moments, or tragic consequences of choices, at least it was surprising for a book of original fairy tales. It was neat to rea

"Flower Fables" - written by Louisa May Alcott and originally published in 1855 by George W Briggs, this edition published in 1998 by Okey-Doke Productions. An important feature of this book of fairy stories is that it was written by an author who is revered for her later works, especially "Little W

A beautiful set of fables, delivered as campfire tales from a fairy get-together, each setting a good example to young impressionable minds. The basic theme running through all of them is to live honest and true and be nice to other people, even in the overwhelming face of negativity and seemingly i

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