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    Candy Country
    Candy Country
    Candy Country
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    Candy Country

    By Louisa May Alcott

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    Short story by the author of Little Women. According to Wikipedia: "Louisa May Alcott's overwhelming success dated from the appearance of the first part of Little Women: or Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy, (1868) a semi-autobiographical account of her childhood years with her sisters in Concord, Massachusetts. Part two, or Part Second, also known as Good Wives, (1869) followed the March sisters into adulthood and their respective marriages. Little Men (1871) detailed Jo's life at the Plumfield School that she founded with her husband Professor Bhaer at the conclusion of Part Two of Little Women. Jo's Boys (1886) completed the "March Family Saga." Most of her later volumes, An Old Fashioned Girl (1870), Aunt Jo's Scrap Bag (6 vols., 1871–1879), Eight Cousins and its sequel Rose in Bloom (1876), and others, followed in the line of Little Women, remaining popular with her large and loyal public. Although the Jo character in Little Women was based on Louisa May Alcott, she, unlike Jo, never married. Alcott explained her "spinsterhood" in an interview with Louise Chandler Moulton, "... because I have fallen in love with so many pretty girls and never once the least bit with any man."

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSeltzer Books
    Release dateMar 1, 2018
    ISBN9781455387977
    Candy Country
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    Louisa May Alcott

    Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888) is the author of the beloved Little Women, which was based on her own experiences growing up in New England with her parents and three sisters. More than a century after her death, Louisa May Alcott's stories continue to delight readers of all ages.

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      Candy Country - Louisa May Alcott

      THE CANDY COUNTRY BY LOUISA M. ALCOTT

      published by Samizdat Express, Orange, CT, USA

      established in 1974, offering over 14,000 books

      Books by Louisa May Alcott:

      Flower Fables

      Hospital Sketches

      On Picket Duty and Other Tales

      Moods

      The Mysterious Key and What It Opened

      Little Women

      Kitty's Class Day and Other Stories

      An Old-Fashioned Girl

      Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag

      Shawl Straps

      Jimmy's Cruise in the Pinafore

      An Old Fashioned Thanksgiving

      Little Men

      Work

      Eight Cousins

      Rose in Bloom

      Under the Lilacs

      Jack and Jill

      Candy Country

      Jo's Boys

      A Garland for Girls

      Marjorie's Three Gifts

      A Modern Cinderella

      Pauline's Passion and Punishment

      The Louisa Alcott Reader

      Spinning-Wheel Stories

      Silver Pitchers and Independence

      Behind a Mask (writing as A. M. Barnard)

      The Abbot's Ghost (writing as A. M. Barnard)

      feedback welcome: info@samizdat.com

      visit us at samizdat.com

      First published by:

      BOSTON

      LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY

      Copyright, 1885,

      BY LOUISA M. ALCOTT

      Copyright, 1900,

      BY JOHN S. P. ALCOTT

      University Press

      JOHN WILSON AND SON, CAMBRIDGE, U.S.A.

      THE CANDY COUNTRY

      HOW THEY RAN AWAY

      THE CANDY COUNTRY

      I shall take mamma's red sun umbrella, it is so warm, and none of the children at school will have one like it, said Lily, one day, as she went through the hall.

      The wind is very high; I'm afraid you'll be blown away if you carry that big thing, called Nurse from the window, as the red umbrella went bobbing down the garden walk with a small girl under it.

      I wish it would; I always wanted to go up in a balloon, answered Lily, as she struggled out of the gate.

      She got on very well till she came to the bridge and stopped to look over the railing at the water running by so fast, and the turtles sunning themselves on the rocks. Lily was fond of throwing stones at them; it was so funny to watch them tumble, heels over head, splash into the water. Now, when she saw three big fellows close by, she stooped for a stone, and just at that minute a gale of wind nearly took the umbrella out of her hand. She clutched it fast; and away she went like a thistle-down, right up in the air, over river and hill, houses and trees, faster and faster, till her head spun round, her breath was all gone, and she had to let go. The dear red umbrella flew away like a leaf; and Lily fell down, down, till she went crash into a tree which grew in such a curious place that she forgot her fright as she sat looking about her, wondering what part of the world it could be.

      The tree looked as if made of glass or colored sugar; for she could see through the red cherries, the green leaves, and the brown branches. An agreeable smell met her nose; and she said at once, as any child would, I smell candy! She picked a cherry and ate it. Oh, how good it was!--all sugar and no stone. The next discovery was such a delightful one that she nearly fell off her perch; for by touching her tongue

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