A Modern Mephistopheles, and A Whisper in the Dark (eBook, ePUB) - May Alcott, Louisa
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This novel was written by Louisa May Alcott and first published anonymously in 1877, when she was 25 years old, perhaps so she could explore a "darker side" without tainting her reputations.
The book was then published under her name in 1889, along with her similarly dark story, A Whisper in the Dark, that you will find in this collection.
A mephistopheles is a demon from German folklore. A journal entry from February, 1877 explained what inspired her to write it: " It has been simmering ever since I read Faust last year. "

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Produktbeschreibung
This novel was written by Louisa May Alcott and first published anonymously in 1877, when she was 25 years old, perhaps so she could explore a "darker side" without tainting her reputations.

The book was then published under her name in 1889, along with her similarly dark story, A Whisper in the Dark, that you will find in this collection.

A mephistopheles is a demon from German folklore. A journal entry from February, 1877 explained what inspired her to write it: " It has been simmering ever since I read Faust last year."
Autorenporträt
Louisa May Alcott (1832 - 1888) was an American novelist and poet best known as the author of the novel Little Women (1868) and its sequels Little Men (1871) and Jo's Boys (1886). Raised by her transcendentalist parents, Abigail May and Amos Bronson Alcott in New England, she also grew up among many of the well-known intellectuals of the day such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry David Thoreau. Alcott's family suffered financial difficulties, and while she worked to help support the family from an early age, she also sought an outlet in writing. She began to receive critical success for her writing in the 1860s. Early in her career, she sometimes used the pen name A. M. Barnard, under which she wrote novels for young adults. Published in 1868, Little Women is set in the Alcott family home, Hillside, later called the Wayside, in Concord, Massachusetts and is loosely based on Alcott's childhood experiences with her three sisters. The novel was very well received and is still a popular children's novel today, filmed several times. Alcott was an abolitionist and a feminist and remained unmarried throughout her life. She died in Boston on March 6, 1888.