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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.
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23 votes, 16 comments. So after that thread about what book has been in your TBR pile the longest, I finally decided to read Little Women. It…
May 1, 1996 · The story revolves around the lives of the four March sisters—Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy—as they navigate the challenges of growing up in a time of hardship brought on by the Civil War, while balancing their dreams, ambitions, and family values.
- Alcott, Louisa May, 1832-1888
- Little Women
- English
Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott, might be the most beautiful book I’ve ever read. I read this book about two months ago at the recommendation of a friend and it blew me away. I’m a 24-year-old man and I was not expecting to be this strongly impacted by a children’s novel.
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- The Evolution of Dreams and Desires
- The Enduring Embrace of Family Values
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Little Womentells the story of four young sisters during the years of the American Civil War. Their father is serving as a chaplain for the Union Army, far from home, while the girls stay at home with their mother. The sisters are quite different from one another: Margaret, “Meg,” the older sister, wants to make a good marriage so she can live with...
Ever since its publication, Little Womenhas been described as a new kind of literature, a type of realism ahead of its time. And today, 150 years after its publication, it still is. This book is directed at young people; the characters are teenagers, but it has something that novels for that public do not have nowadays. Our modern teen novels, alwa...
Some readers have said that the second part of the novel only shows us how the girls, full of dreams at the beginning, decide to settle down and accept life as it comes, leaving all their plans to waste. This remark is mostly made because of Jo, who, at the end of Good Wives,is married and raising children, working along with her husband in their s...
There is one more thing about this novel that I would like to underline: Its continuous exposure to family values, which are absent in most of the literature’s modern pieces. Despite every difficulty they have to endure, the March family remains together. The closeness is evident not only between parents and children, but also among the sisters the...
nagainaon August 07, 2020: This is awesome! Hazelon July 08, 2020: I loved this book, It's so interesting! Literarycreature (author)from Argentina on February 26, 2019: It will always be one of my favorites, too! Thank you for your comment! Danielle Popovitsfrom Traverse City, MI on February 25, 2019: This is a great review! Very engaging, and you ...
Dec 8, 2020 · Is Little Women a good book? Little Women is an excellent and easy-to-read classic book that has delighted generations of readers. It’s the classic Civil War-era story of four very different, but very creative, sisters on their home front with their endearing mother, anticipating their father’s homecoming from the War.
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Little Women contains nods to the sensation stories Alcott loved to write. Alcott was a prolific writer. She wrote over 200 books and her works, many written under pseudonyms, are still being ...
