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From `Little Women' to `Blood-and-Thunder'; The other side of Louisa May Alcott.
From: The Washington Post
Date: 19941230
Author:Amy E. Schwartz
The news that Random House will publish a previously unknown "sensational novel" by Louisa May Alcott, author of the beloved "Little Women," adds a spicy undertone to the predictable sweetness and uplift of the famous novel's latest remake - a warmly received Christmas-season movie starring Winona Ryder and Susan Sarandon.
It also raises, in an appropriately gentle way, the last thing anyone would expect about the old masterpiece: a moral issue concerning authorial scruples and the effect of one's writing upon the young.
The newly rediscovered Alcott novel, a serial thriller called "A ...
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