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3,514 books9,384 followers. 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, Abigail May Alcott and Amos Bronson Alcott, she grew up among ...
Little Women Full Book Summary. 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.
May 19, 2024 · Louisa May Alcott (born November 29, 1832, Germantown, Pennsylvania, U.S.—died March 6, 1888, Boston, Massachusetts) was an American author known for her children’s books, especially the classic Little Women (1868–69). The home of Bronson Alcott and his family, including his daughter Louisa May Alcott, in Concord, Massachusetts, wood ...
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott, initially published in two volumes in 1868 and 1869, is a classic novel that follows the lives of the four March sisters—Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy—growing up in Civil War-era Massachusetts. The novel explores their individual personalities, dreams, and struggles as they navigate the challenges of adolescence ...
Little Women. One of the best loved books of all time. Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read. 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 ...
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
Nov 4, 2022 · CHAPTER THREE THE LAURENCE BOY “Jo! Jo! Where are you?” cried Meg at the foot of the garret stairs. “Here!” answered a husky voice from above, and, running up, Meg found her sister eating apples and crying over the Heir of Redclyffe, wrapped up in a comforter on an old three-legged sofa by the sunny window. This was Jo’s favorite refuge, and here
