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Piccole donne - Piccole donne crescono: Nuova traduzione integrale - Introduzione critica

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"Il suo primo amore aveva avuto la forza di una tempesta, ma lui ora vi guardava come a qualcosa di quieto e lontano nel tempo, accompagnato da un sentimento di indulgenza verso se stesso e insieme di rimpianto. Non se ne vergognava, ma decise di metterlo in disparte, accanto alle altre esperienze felici e dolorose del passato, come qualcosa da ricordare con affetto quando il dolore fosse scemato. Desiderava che la sua seconda passione fosse invece più serena e tranquilla. Non c'era bisogno di un proscenio, né quasi che le confessasse di lei lo sapeva, senza bisogno di parole, e gli aveva già dato la sua risposta molto tempo prima."Edizione integrale illustrata dei primi due libri del capolavoro di Louisa May Alcott, che seguendo la consuetudine statunitense riunisce in un unico volume i due titoli Piccole donne e Piccole donne crescono.Pur mantenendo il tono semplice e immediato delle versioni più conosciute, la nuova, accurata traduzione integrale restituisce all'opera la sua connotazione iniziale, che ne rende la lettura piacevolmente fruibile anche da parte di un pubblico più maturo. Le illustrazioni sono quelle originali di Frank T. Merril, che l'Autrice scelse personalmente per la seconda e definitiva edizione del 1880.Introduzione critica di Luisa Vardiero, a cura del Centro Studi Tethis, specializzato in edizioni critiche, nuove traduzioni e collezioni letterarie.

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Louisa May Alcott

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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 used pen names such as A.M. Barnard, under which she wrote lurid short stories and sensation novels for adults that focused on passion and revenge.
Published in 1868, Little Women is set in the Alcott family home, Orchard House, in Concord, Massachusetts, and is loosely based on Alcott's childhood experiences with her three sisters, Abigail May Alcott Nieriker, Elizabeth Sewall Alcott, and Anna Bronson Alcott Pratt. The novel was well-received at the time and is still popular today among both children and adults. It has been adapted for stage plays, films, and television many times.
Alcott was an abolitionist and a feminist and remained unmarried throughout her life. She also spent her life active in reform movements such as temperance and women's suffrage. She died from a stroke in Boston on March 6, 1888, just two days after her father's death.

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