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Little Women is a coming-of-age novel written by American novelist Louisa May Alcott, originally published in two volumes in 1868 and 1869. The story follows the lives of the four March sisters—Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy—and details their passage from childhood to womanhood. ...
Jun 18, 2024 · Little Women, novel for children by Louisa May Alcott, published in two parts in 1868 and 1869. Her sister May illustrated the first edition. It initiated a genre of family stories for children. The novel has two sequels: Little Men (1871) and Jo’s Boys (1886).
This is an alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780451529305. Generations of readers young and old, male and female, have fallen in love with the March sisters of Louisa May Alcott’s most popular and enduring novel, Little Women.Here are talented tomboy and author-to-be Jo, tragically frail Beth, beautiful Meg, and romantic, spoiled Amy, united in their devotion to each other and their struggles ...
May 1, 1996 · Little Women Note: There is an improved illustrated edition of this title which may be viewed at eBook #37106. Language: English: LoC Class: PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature: Subject: Autobiographical fiction Subject: Young women -- Fiction Subject: Sisters -- Fiction Subject: Domestic fiction Subject
Alcott prefaces Little Women with an excerpt from John Bunyan’s seventeenth-century work The Pilgrim’s Progress, an allegorical novel about leading a Christian life. Alcott’s story begins with the four March girls—Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy—sitting in their living room, lamenting their poverty.
These have been republished in one book, also titled Little Women, containing 47 chapters. Book 1. Little Women. by Louisa May Alcott. 4.16 · 2265184 Ratings · 53477 Reviews · published 1868 · 5636 editions. This is an alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780451 ...
Louisa May Alcott was born in Pennsylvania, in 1832, the second of four daughters.After a period of serving as an army nurse, she published Hospital Sketches in 1863, followed by Gothic Romances and lurid thrillers.In 1868-9, she published Little Women, which proved so popular that it was followed by two sequels and several other novels.She died in 1888.
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, ...
Jun 11, 2001 · Little Women, Louisa May Alcott’s masterpiece of Children’s literature, is the story of the March sisters, Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy. Living in a small Massachusetts town, the girls and Mrs. March must make do while Mr. March is away serving as an Army Chaplain during the Civil War. At the story’s center lies Jo who, as she approaches adulthood, must reconcile her duties to her family with ...
"Christmas won't be Christmas without any presents," grumbled Jo, lying on the rug. So begins one of the best-loved children’s classics, Little Women. Coming of age in the North during the Civil War, the March sisters—Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy—experience great joy and tragic loss while becoming the true little women of the title. The novel is resonant with themes of friendship, feminism ...
