Piccole donne - I quattro romanzi

by Louisa May Alcott

Jo, Meg, Amy e Beth sono le indimenticabili piccole donne della famiglia March, che fin dalla loro nascita sulla carta - un secolo e mezzo fa - hanno fatto emozionare, sognare, piangere e, in definitiva, crescere generazioni di lettrici e lettori. Raccolti in un unico volume, i quattro romanzi della saga ideata da Louisa May Alcott, Piccole donne e Piccole donne crescono e i meno conosciuti Piccoli uomini e I ragazzi di Jo, risplendono del pensiero libero ed emancipato dell'autrice e disegnano una parabola nel suo progetto culturale e umano, che trascende grandiosamente i confini della letteratura per l'infanzia. Nel dipanarsi a tratti dolce, a tratti struggente delle vite eccezionalmente normali delle sue protagoniste, attraverso il racconto di gioie e tragedie della vita quotidiana delle sorelle March, Alcott crea un alter ego come Jo in grado di sfidare qualsiasi inclinazione di genere e incarnare i valori e le lotte femministe della modernità, in un'America in cui le donne stanno conquistando nuovi diritti, e ci lascia così immaginare in controluce il futuro che il Novecento promette loro proprio dietro l'angolo.

1408 pages, Kindle Edition

Published June 13, 2023

About the author

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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[Irissska · Rating 1 out of 5]

Не моя чашка чая (сугубо субьективное мнение)

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Зы. Сы.: учитывая как много хвалебных отзывов об этой книге, игнорьте мое мнение, но если вдруг она вам тоже не понравится, знайте, что вы не одиноки в этом.