Little Women
By Louisa May Alcott; Elaine Showalter (Introduction by); Siobhan Kilfeather (Notes by); Vinca Showalter (Notes by); Coralie Bickford-Smith (Illustrator)
(Penguin Classics Hardcover, Hardcover, 9780141192413, 544pp.)
Publication Date: September 28, 2010
Other Editions of This Title: Paperback, Mass Market Paperback, Hardcover
Categories: Literary, Classics
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Little Women is one of the best loved books of all time. Lovely Meg, talented Jo, frail Beth, spoiled Amy: these are hard lessons of poverty and of growing up in New England during the Civil War. Through their dreams, plays, pranks, letters, illnesses, and courtships, women of all ages have become a part of this remarkable family and have felt the deep sadness when Meg leaves the circle of sisters to be married at the end of Part I. Part II, chronicles Meg's joys and mishaps as a young wife and mother, Jo's struggle to become a writer, Beth's tragedy, and Amy's artistic pursuits and unexpected romance. Based on Louise May Alcott's childhood, this lively portrait of nineteenth- century family life possesses a lasting vitality that has endeared it to generations of readers.
Elaine Showalter is the author of the groundbreaking A Literature of Their Own and editor of Little Women for Penguin Classics.
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