by Louisa May Alcott · Editorial Berenice · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788415441663
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«Sirenitas» is the collection of fantasy tales by Louisa May Alcott, published by Editorial Berenice in paperback, 223 pages, in Spanish.
The volume brings together the short novel «Ariel o una leyenda del faro» and seven more stories about mermaids, undines, nereids and other sea beings. Set on islands, lighthouses and seaside villas, Alcott blends imagination and reality in tales such as that of a girl who wishes to be a mermaid or a mermaid who longs to be a girl, with registers ranging from fairy tale to Gothic story.
Published within the collection «Los libros de pan», with selection and translation by Óscar Mariscal. The central story, «Ariel o una leyenda del faro», dates from 1865 and evokes Shakespeare's «La tempestad».
For readers aged 9 to 99, particularly those seeking fairy tales and classic fantasy.
Louisa May Alcott was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet best known for writing the novel Little Women (1868) and its sequels Good Wives (1869), Little Men (1871), and Jo's Boys (1886). Raised in New England by her transcendentalist parents, Abigail May and Amos Bronson Alcott, she grew up among many well-known intellectuals of the day, including Margaret Fuller, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry David Thoreau. Encouraged by her family, Alcott began writing from an early age.
