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Title: Work: A Story of Experience

Author: Louisa May Alcott

Release date: December 1, 2003 [eBook #4770]
Most recently updated: June 6, 2021

Language: English

Credits: Charles Aldarondo

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Work: A Story of Experience

by Louisa May Alcott

AUTHOR OF “LITTLE WOMEN,” “LITTLE MEN,” “AN OLD-FASHIONED GIRL,” “HOSPITAL SKETCHES,” ETC.

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“An endless significance lies in work; in idleness alone is there perpetual despair.”—CARLYLE.

BOSTON:

1901.

TO
MY MOTHER,
WHOSE LIFE HAS BEEN A LONG LABOR OF LOVE, THIS BOOK IS GRATEFULLY INSCRIBED

BY
HER DAUGHTER.

Contents

I. CHRISTIE
II. SERVANT
III. ACTRESS
IV. GOVERNESS
V. COMPANION
VI. SEAMSTRESS
VII. THROUGH THE MIST
VIII. A CURE FOR DESPAIR
IX. MRS. WILKINS’S MINISTER
X. BEGINNING AGAIN
XI. IN THE STRAWBERRY BED
XII. CHRISTIE’S GALA
XIII. WAKING UP
XIV. WHICH?
XV. MIDSUMMER
XVI. MUSTERED IN
XVII. THE COLONEL
XVIII. SUNRISE
XIX. LITTLE HEART’S-EASE
XX. AT FORTY

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS,

FROM DRAWINGS BY SOL EYTINGE.

“How doth the little busy bee”
Christie
Aunt Betsey’s Interlarded Speech
Mrs. Stuart.
Hepsey
Christie as Queen of the Amazons
Mr. Philip Fletcher
Mrs. Saltonstall and Family
“No, I thank you”
Helen Carrol
Mrs. King and Miss Cotton
The Rescue
“C. Wilkins, Clear Starcher”
Lisha Wilkins
Mrs. Wilkins’ “Six Lively Infants”
Mr. Power
Mrs. Sterling
David and Christie in the Greenhouse
Mr. Power and Christie in the Strawberry Bed
A Friendly Chat
Kitty.
“One Happy Moment”
David
“Then they were married”
“Don’t mourn, dear heart, but WORK”
“She’s a good little gal; looks consid’able like you”
“Each ready to do her part to hasten the coming of the happy end”