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Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 0316031054
ISBN-13: 9780316031059
Nov 1994
Publisher: Little Brown & Co
502 pages
Grade:
From 4 to 6
Reprint
Language: English |
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Synopsis
Chronicles the joys and sorrows of the four March sisters as they grow into young ladies in mid-nineteenth-century New England., Chronicles the joys and sorrows of the four March sisters as they grow into young ladies in nineteenth-century New England., This story of the four March sisters is based on the author's own childhood. The novel is divided into two parts. "Book One" focuses on the sisters' struggles with poverty while growing up in New England during the Civil War. As their father, a minister, serves in the war, the girls are raised by their loving and wise mother, Marmee. "Book Two" takes place after the war has ended and the father has returned to the family. The sisters deal with love, marriage, an unexpected tragedy, and Jo's determination to become a professional writer.
| Size | | Length: | 502 pages | | Height: | 8.3 in | | Width: | 5.5 in | | Thickness: | 1.5 in | | Weight: | 20.0 oz |
Publisher's Notes
First Line: ""Christmas won't be Christmas without any presents," grumbled Jo, lying on the rug."
Industry Reviews
"There was one book in which I believed I had caught a glimpse of my future self: 'Little Women', by Louisa May Alcott....I identified passionately with Jo, the intellectual....I shared her horror of housekeeping and her love of books."
"Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter" - Simone de Beauvoir
"Jo should have remained a literary spinster, but so many enthusiastic young ladies wrote to me clamorously demanding that she should marry Laurie, or somebody, that I didn't dare refuse and out of perversity went and made a funny match for her."
letters - Louisa May Alcott
"...'Little Women' represents Alcott's belief that the fullest art came from women who had fulfilled both their sexual and their intellectual needs....Jo lives and writes, not as the unattainable genius, Shakespeare's sister, but as a sister of our own."
introduction - Elaine Showalter
"In 'Little Women' [Alcott] gives us Jo, her best creation, but to allow Jo to live the adult reader must forgive Alcott everything else in the 502 soppy and moralizing pages."
Salon - Jane Hamilton (12/09/1997)
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