The complete online text of On Picket Duty, and Other Tales by Louisa May Alcott.

Louisa May Alcott is an unexpected inhabitant in the world of magazine editing. Her name is better known as the author of Little Women (1868-1869) and other children's stories, and her novels are now as often scrutinized by social historians as they are...

Louisa May Alcott (29 November 1832-6 March 1888) still retains her reputation as one of America's best-loved writers of juveniles. That reputation was established with the publication of Little Women (1868-1869), a domestic novel for girls primarily aut...

Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888) is one of America's best-known writers of juvenile fiction. She was also a reformer, working in the causes of temperance and women's suffrage. Louisa May Alcott was born in Germantown, Pa., in 1832. She was the daughter of B...

MAPUTO, Mozambique - Africa can be complicated. Here, for instance, is how you buy a can of beer or soda at the small, rather down-at-the-heels concession in the international departure lounge of Maputo's Maverna Airport. First you go to the small, 1950s-era...

It being the fourth Tuesday of the ninth month naturally makes this the day for a periodic romp through the mailbag, in which Nora Schwaller of Lowell whines about our treatment of Jetskis, John Pfeil of Lexington sends me back to a brush-up course...