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Myth & Legend FictionFae & Fairy FictionFairy Tales & Folklore

Flower Fables

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  • 1854 first published
  • 126 pages
  • 448 editions
  • 🎧 3 h 48 min free audiobook
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Louisa May Alcott's Flower Fables (1854) is a mythic fiction and fae fiction poetry collection. The story is set in United States. Key subjects include fairy tales, fairies, flowers and Poetry.

40 Open Library readers have it on their want-to-read list. It has been published in 448 editions. On Project Gutenberg it was downloaded 1,821 times in the last 30 days.

At about 126 pages, most readers finish it in 2–3 hours. It is in the public domain, so you can read it free on Project Gutenberg or listen to the 3 h 48 min LibriVox audiobook.

About Flower Fables

Louisa May Alcott was twenty-one when she published this, her first book. A collection of fairy stories and poems she originally told to Ralph Waldo Emerson's daughter Ellen, Flower Fables is a charming and delightful achievement from the hand that would eventually craft the timeless classic Little Women. Flower Fables is presented here in large print for easier reading by children and adults of any age.
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Free audiobook

Flower Fables — LibriVox recording, 3 h 48 min in 10 sections.

Public-domain recording by volunteer readers. Listen online, download MP3s or stream from the Internet Archive.

Themes, setting & tropes

Genres

Setting

Subjects

  • Fairy tales
  • Fairies
  • Flowers
  • Literary collections
  • Poetry
  • Children's stories, American
  • Classic Literature
  • Conduct of life
  • Children's fiction
  • JUVENILE FICTION / Fairy Tales & Folklore / General
  • American fiction, Fictional works by one author
  • Literature, collections
  • Fairy tales, United States
  • Flowers, Juvenile fiction
  • Flowers, Juvenile poetry
  • Fairies, Juvenile poetry

Quick answers

Who wrote Flower Fables?

Flower Fables was written by Louisa May Alcott and first published in 1854.

What genre is Flower Fables?

It is usually shelved as Myth & Legend Fiction, Fae & Fairy Fiction and Fairy Tales & Folklore.

How long is Flower Fables?

The median edition has 126 pages, about 2–3 hours of reading at 250 words per minute.

Is Flower Fables free to read?

Yes. It is in the public domain in the United States and can be read free on Project Gutenberg in EPUB, Kindle and HTML formats.

Is there a free audiobook of Flower Fables?

Yes — LibriVox volunteers recorded it; the recording runs 3 h 48 min.

What books are similar to Flower Fables?

Readers who like it often enjoy A Wonder Book for Girls and Boys, The king of the Golden River; or, The black brothers and The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.

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