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Behind a Mask, Or, a Woman's Power
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Little Women author Louisa May Alcott presents four surprisingly spooky tales with a Gothic twist — and strong female characters.
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As every reader of Alcott's beloved Little Women knows, tomboy Jo was a writer of thrillers. Long before she wrote her girls classic, Alcott herself wrote thrillers too, the best of which is probably Behind A Mask. Subtitled "A Woman's Power," the book has been the subject of a fair amount of feminist scholarship, but can also be enjoyed as a spooky story about a mysterious woman out for revenge. For most of the short novel, we don't know what Jean... more
—Lisa Tucker
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