Louisa May Alcott Quote | Knowledge & Wisdom
“Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable.” —Louisa May Alcott (1832–1888). Though she wrote hundreds of plays, novels, stories, and poems during her lifetime, this Massachusetts author is best known for Little Women. That novel, which turns 150 this year, definitely qualifies as one of the “more […]
By Yankee Magazine|Jan 02 2018|
“Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable.”
—Louisa May Alcott (1832–1888). Though she wrote hundreds of plays, novels, stories, and poems during her lifetime, this Massachusetts author is best known for Little Women. That novel, which turns 150 this year, definitely qualifies as one of the “more select” in U.S. literature: A recent Harris poll of Americans’ favorite books put Little Women at No. 8, right after The Catcher in the Rye and just ahead of The Grapes of Wrath.
There was a poem in this issue that I misplaced. It related to memories of growing up in the North and spoke of mittens drying, an sitting by the heat register. Would you be able to E-mail this to me? I ‘m very sad I don’t have it. Thank you.