Little women

Title:

Little women

Author:

Alcott, Louisa May, 1832-1888

ISBN:

9780141321080

Personal Author:

Alcott, Louisa May, 1832-1888

Edition:

[New] edition / introduced by Louise Rennison.

Publication Date:

2015

2008

Physical Description:

vii, 368 pages ; 18 cm.

Series:

Puffin classics

Puffin classics.

Abstract:

In 1868 Louisa May Alcott began to write a novel based on her own childhood, in the hope of settling some of her father's mounting debts. 'Little Women' is a sensitive portrayal of the lives of four young sisters growing up during the Civil War.

Subject Term:

March family (Fictitious characters) -- Juvenile fiction.

Sisters -- Juvenile fiction.

Geographic Term:

United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Social aspects -- Juvenile fiction.

Genre:

Children's stories.

Fiction 9+.

Classics.

Copies:

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Summary

Meg is the eldest and on the brink of love. Then there's tomboy Jo who longs to be a writer. Sweet-natured Beth always puts others first, and finally there's Amy, the youngest and most precocious. Together they are the March sisters. Even though money is short, times are tough and their father is away at war, their infectious sense of fun sweeps everyone up in their adventures - including Laurie, the boy next door. And through sisterly squabbles, their happy times and sad ones too, the sisters discover that growing up is sometimes very hard to do.

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott is one of the twenty wonderful classic stories being reissued in Puffin Classics in March 2015.

Author Notes

Louisa May Alcott (1832-88) was brought up in Pennsylvania, USA. She turned to writing in order to supplement the family income and had many short stories published in magazines and newspapers.
She was reluctant to write a children's book but then realized that in herself and her three sisters she had the perfect models. The result was Little Women (1868) which became the earliest American to become a classic.