Skyboat Road Company
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Audio, Inc
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"This collection represents the best of Alcott's adult oeuvre, starting with 'A Modern Mephistopheles,' a dark Faustian tale inspired by A Long Fatal Love Chase. The stories in this volume display dramatic intensity and thrilling, suspenseful plots that show Alcott to be a complex and passionate writer. Listeners will discover within this maelstrom of murder, deceit, obsessive desire, treachery, duplicity, and betrayal that love and honor can still...
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Audio, Inc
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Writing under the pseudonym A.M. Barnard, Louisa May Alcott wrote a series of what she termed "blood and thunder" thrillers for a weekly pulp magazine. Pauline's Passion and Punishment, and Other Escapades brings together five of these wicked tales. In "Pauline's Passion and Punishment," narrated by Emily Rankin, Alcott explores the unfair roles of men and women, as well as the societal expectations and forbidden desires in this story of love and...
