Little Women (Hardcover)

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Little Women by Louisa Mae Alcott is a timeless classic set in Massachusetts  around the Civil War.  Jo, Beth, Meg, and Amy strive to help their mother while their father is away in the war.  Times are trying, resources are scarce, but the March sisters still find joy in life despite adversity.  Each sister is decidedly individual.  Meg is calm and kind, a pretty girl yearning for the comforts of home.  Beth is frail but loving.  Amy is beautiful, artistic and striving.  And Jo refuses to be boxed into a role chosen by society.  She determines to contribute by writing, much like her creator.  Another great book to read is March by Geraldine Brooks, winner of the Pulitzer Prize.  It tell Mr. March’s wartime experiences.

— Deon Stonehouse

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It is one of the most beloved novels in the English language, and its protagonists among the best friends a reader can have. Louisa May Alcott's Little Women-inspired by her own childhood with three sisters in Concord, Massachusetts-is the simple, elegant tale of tomboy Jo March, who strains against the limitations of women of her time, and dependable Meg, compassionate Beth, and spoiled Amy. Their childhood adventures and squabbles as well as their adult romances and travels continue to enthrall and delight readers a century and a half after the novel was first published, and have inspired stage plays, comic books, and countless film adaptations. Timelessly classic, this is an essential work for any library of 19th-century literature. LOUISA MAY ALCOTT (1832-1888), one of the most well-known American novelists of the 19th century, was born on November 29, 1832 to transcendentalist educator Amos Bronson Alcott and his wife, Abigail May Alcott. She was the second of four sisters (like Jo, her literary corollary), and grew up in a family that encouraged and sympathized with her abolitionist and feminist leanings. As a child she received instruction from noted literary figures such as Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, and Nathaniel Hawthorne, all family friends. In addition to the Little Women series, which included four novels, she wrote 28 other works, three under the pen name A.M Barnard. Though Alcott had chronic health problems in her later years, most likely attributed to an autoimmune disease, she continued to write until her death at 55 in 1888.
Product Details
ISBN: 9781616402457
ISBN-10: 1616402458
Publisher: Cosimo Classics
Publication Date: July 1st, 2010
Pages: 456
Language: English