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Little Women is a coming-of-age novel written by American novelist Louisa May Alcott, originally published in two volumes, in 1868 and 1869. [1] [2] The story follows the lives of the four March sisters—Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy—and details their passage from childhood to womanhood.
Louisa May Alcott (/ ˈ ɔː l k ə t,-k ɒ t /; November 29, 1832 – March 6, 1888) 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).
Invincible Louisa, subtitled "The Story of the Author of Little Women", opens with Louisa Alcott's birth on a snowy November day in Germantown, Pennsylvania. Her father, Bronson Alcott, ran a school for young children in their home. "It was a time of great happiness, peace, and security...
All of Emily Giffin’s 12 novels, including her latest, The Summer Pact (Ballantine), are NYT bestsellers, and 5 have been optioned for film or TV. The film adaptation of her first novel ...
Jo's Boys, and How They Turned Out: A Sequel to "Little Men" is a novel by American author Louisa May Alcott, first published in 1886. The novel is the final book in the unofficial Little Women series. In it, the March sisters' children and the original students of Plumfield, now grown, are caught up in real world troubles as they work towards ...
The animated series is loosely derived from Part One and partly on the beginning of Part Two of the book, and introduces new material and characters. [3] The series begins with the introduction of the March family happily living near Gettysburg (the nearby town of York in the English version), until one day during a picnic, Mr. March notices Confederate scouts at a riverbank.
The New York Tribune opined that Little Women was a better book. [13] In reference to the illustrations, the Springfield Daily Republican noted differences in their quality. [16] Henry James wrote a review of Eight Cousins in The Nation that called it an "unhappy amalgam of the novel and the story-book". He called Alcott "clever" but felt her ...
Josephine March has grown into womanhood about ten years since Tales of Little Women and is now married to the German Professor, Friedrich Bhaer. In the Plumfield farm-house that Aunt March had left her, Jo Bhaer has established a new school for her two sons, Robby and Teddy, nephews (Franz, Emil, Demi-John), niece (Daisy) and a gang of orphaned children, including Annie "Nan" Harding and a ...