Louisa May Alcott 
Christmas Classics: Holiday Tales from Louisa May Alcott 

MDP Christmas Classics Series has compiled a collection of four Christmas stories from one of America’s beloved 19th century authors, Louisa May Alcott. A Country Christmas is a delightful tale of love and friendship, set in a small country town, where Sophie, a city-dwelling society girl, is spending the Christmas holidays with her ‘country’ relatives.A Christmas Dream and How It Came True is the heart-warming story of a rich little girl unimpressed and uninspired by the Christmas season until a dream changes her life forever.A Christmas Turkey and How It Came is a tale of one family’s struggle to provide a traditional Christmas dinner and how hard work and the kindness of strangers can enrich our lives.The last story, The Abbot’s Ghost, or Maurice Treherne’s Temptation is a Christmas ghost story, full of mystery, tragedy, romance and love.

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Louisa May Alcott was an American writer and poet who is best known for her classic novel Little Women (1869), and the sequels, Little Men (1871), Eight Cousins (1875) and Jo’s Boys (1886). Born on November 29, 1832, in Germantown, Pennsylvania, Alcott studied informally with family friends such as Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson and Theodore Parker. Louisa May Alcott has also published poems, short stories, thrillers, and juvenile tales under the pen names Flora Fairfield and A.M. Barnard.