"Pauline's Passion and Punishment" by Louisa May Alcott is a story set in the late 1800s that looks at the difficult parts of love, disloyalty, and payback inside the heart. It follows Pauline's journey as she deals with intense feelings and plans revenge on Gilbert who betrayed her. Finding out Gilbert wed someone else after saying he loved her, Pauline seeks to get even. Manuel, who is in love with her, helps her, which makes their lives even more complicated and filled with feelings. The book shows strong feelings and moral questions as it builds to a tense ending where Pauline has to think hard about what she wants and what might happen because of her actions.
Pauline's Passion and Punishment
By Louisa May Alcott
Heartbreak and revenge collide in this tale of a woman scorned who risks everything to settle the score with the man who deceived her.
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2005-06-01
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About the AuthorLouisa 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, Louisa began writing from an early age.
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, Louisa began writing from an early age.
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