Little Women
By Louisa May Alcott
(Random House Books for Young Readers, Paperback, 9780679861751, 112pp.)
Publication Date: July 5, 1994
Other Editions of This Title: eBook, Paperback (April 2008), Paperback (November 2007), Hardcover (October 2004), Mass Market Paperback (April 2004), Hardcover (August 2000), Paperback (March 2000), Hardcover (September 1, 1998), Paperback - Abridged (June 1997), Paperback (February 1997), Mass Market Paperback (December 1983), Mass Market Paperback (April 1, 1983), Hardcover (January 1947)
Categories: Family - General, Readers - Beginner, Social Issues - Adolescence
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The four March sisters--Meg, Amy, Beth, and feisty Jo--share the joys and sorrows of growing up while their father is away at war. The family is poor in worldly goods, but rich in love and character.
Louisa May Alcott was born in 1832 in Pennsylvania and grew up in Concord, Massachusetts. She is best known for her books for children. The daughter of philosopher and reformer Amons Bronson Alcott, she was also a supporter of women's rights and an abolitionist. Family debts led her to write the autobiographical novel Little Women (1868). The book was a huge success, followed by Little Men, An Old-Fashioned Girl, and several other novels.
"The American female myth."
—Madelon Bedell
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