Shoes and Stockings: A Collection of Short Stories

Here are tales of love and war, modesty and frivolity, laughter and tears. Louisa May Alcott wrote many, many short stories. This collection shares but 6/7 of them. (Summary by Carolyn Frances) (6 hr 52 min)

Chapters

A Modern Cinderella: Or, The Little Old Shoe - How It Was Lost	34:37	Read by Carolyn Frances
A Modern Cinderella: Or, The Little Old Shoe - How It Was Found	47:53	Read by Carolyn Frances
Aunt Kipp - Part I	15:57	Read by Carolyn Frances
Aunt Kipp - Part II	22:55	Read by Carolyn Frances
Aunt Kipp - Part III	20:10	Read by Carolyn Frances
Kitty's Class Day	40:42	Read by Carolyn Frances
A Country Christmas - Part I	16:40	Read by Carolyn Frances
A Country Christmas - Part II	24:43	Read by Carolyn Frances
A Country Christmas - Part III	21:13	Read by Carolyn Frances
A Country Christmas - Part IV	20:16	Read by Carolyn Frances
My Red Cap - Part I	10:22	Read by Carolyn Frances
My Red Cap - Part II	11:55	Read by Carolyn Frances
My Red Cap - Part III	9:47	Read by Carolyn Frances
My Red Cap - Part IV	11:11	Read by Carolyn Frances
Nelly's Hospital	40:50	Read by Carolyn Frances
Scarlet Stockings - How They Came Into Lennox's Life	17:22	Read by Carolyn Frances
Scarlet Stockings - Where They Led Him	28:16	Read by Carolyn Frances
Scarlet Stockings - What Became of Them	18:04	Read by Carolyn Frances

Reviews

Not award-winning

(4 stars)

Phxjennifer

The problem with writing an American Classic like "Little Women" is that your readers will have unreasonable expectations. LM Alcott wrote for her living, and she had no appetite for starving in an attic, so she sold what she wrote and moved forward. There's nothing wrong with these stories, they're just not her best. 1: A Modern Cinderella suffers from an excess of sugary metaphor, poetical descriptions, and practically perfect people. 2: Aunt Kipp; thank goodness for her astringent personality after the first story! 3, 4: Country folk vs city folk... 5: My Red Cap, I think the most interesting story. A Civil War nurse and a veteran have several encounters over the years. The plot and characters are well developed. 6: Nellie's Hospital is the only children's story in this collection. A little girl hopes to be a 'Sanitary Commission' nurse when she grows up, and practices with the local bugs, birds and mice. Worth reading. 7: Red Stockings; a Civil War story dealing with the ethical

Precious Timeless Tales

(5 stars)

Hospitable Georgian

Precious Timeless Tales of love, childhood, War and home life to warm your heart on a cold night. The reader had a nice voice and did a consistent job even if she did misspronounce a few words throughout.