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Louisa May Alcott

Born

in Germantown, Pennsylvania, The United States

November 29, 1832

Died

March 06, 1888

Website

http://www.louisamayalcott.org

Genre

Literature & Fiction, Historical Fiction, Mystery & Thrillers

Influences

Amos Bronson Alcott, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Johann ...more

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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 many well-known intellectuals of the day, including Margaret Fuller, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry David Thoreau, and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
Alcott's family suffered from financial difficulties, and while she worked to help support the family from an early age, she also sought an outlet in writing. She began to receive critical success for her writing in the 1860s. Early in her career, she sometimes ...more

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Louisa May Alcott’s books

Average rating: 4.14 · 2,852,783 ratings · 93,475 reviews · 4,039 distinct works • Similar authors

	Little Women (Little Women, #1) 4.17 avg rating — 2,436,999 ratings — published 1868 — 5938 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Little Men (Little Women, #2) 3.88 avg rating — 67,997 ratings — published 1871 — 483 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Małe kobietki (Małe kobietki, #1, Część 1) by Louisa May Alcott, Anna Bańkowska (Translator) 4.05 avg rating — 49,073 ratings — published 1869 — 655 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Good Wives 3.98 avg rating — 48,992 ratings — published 1869 — 541 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Eight Cousins (Eight Cousins, #1) 4.01 avg rating — 39,619 ratings — published 1874 — 2492 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Jo's Boys (Little Women, #3) 3.83 avg rating — 39,417 ratings — published 1886 — 1639 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Rose in Bloom (Eight Cousins, #2) 4.05 avg rating — 24,130 ratings — published 1876 — 817 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	An Old-Fashioned Girl 4.09 avg rating — 22,253 ratings — published 1870 — 1354 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Little Women / Little Men / Jo's Boys by Louisa May Alcott, Elaine Showalter (Editor) 4.36 avg rating — 7,754 ratings — published 1868 — 177 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Piccole donne by Louisa May Alcott, Berto Minozzi (Editor) 4.08 avg rating — 6,557 ratings — published 1868 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Series by Louisa May Alcott

Little Women (3 books)
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June 2015 Old School Classics Group Read

1841, The Murders in the Rue Morgue by Edgar Allan Poe 160 pages

10 votes, 26.3%

1868, Little Women by Louisa May Alcott, 449 pages

9 votes, 23.7%

1899, The Awakening by Kate Chopin, 195 pages

5 votes, 13.2%

1886, The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy, 445 pages

5 votes, 13.2%

1818, Persuasion by Jane Austen, 249 pages

3 votes, 7.9%

1870, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne, 394 pages

3 votes, 7.9%

1794, The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe, 654 pages

2 votes, 5.3%

1830, The Red and the Black by Stendhal, 608 pages

1 vote, 2.6%

1877, Little Lord Fauntleroy by Frances Hodgson Burnett, 164 pages

0 votes, 0.0%

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