Showing posts with label Louisa May Alcott. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Louisa May Alcott. Show all posts

Monday, June 7, 2010

June 7 - Mark the Calendar

Mark the Calendar:

1933. Fritz presents Wolfe with forty-nine brands of beer to sample.
--Rex Stout: Nero Wolfe: Fer de Lance.

1991 – George Kaplan and the Candy Bar Team steal the da Vinci helicopter model from the Louvre.
-- Steven de Souza & Daniel Waters: Hudson Hawk.

Pip March (the canary) dies and is laid to rest in the garden with much attendant funerary pomp and tears.
--Louisa May Alcott: Little Women

Monday, September 7, 2009

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

Opening line:

"Christmas won't be Christmas without any presents," grumbled Jo, lying on the rug.

Sunday, September 6, 2009

Little Men by Louisa May Alcott

Opening line:

'Please sir, is this Plumfield?' asked a ragged boy of the man who opened the great gate at which the omnibus left him.