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Little Women (Macmillan Collector's Library Book 1
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Louisa May Alcott
4,044 books10.6k followersLouisa 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.
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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December 24, 2024
Delightful! I can’t even gather my thoughts. Is it too soon to reread? lol
This included both Little Women and Good Wives.
This included both Little Women and Good Wives.
October 21, 2024
wow this was so good!! laughs were laughed, tears were shed, good advice/reminders were taken to heart. this book was *thoroughly* enjoyed ♥️
February 3, 2024
An absolute favourite from childhood, reread for my book group. This edition is part 1 and 2, part 2 being better known in the UK as Good Wives. The MacMillan collection is truly beautiful and are a pleasure to read, with their gold spines and little blue ribbons.
Little Women is a book of it's time to a large extent. The moralising tone that runs throughout the book, which was sweet as a child, does grate a bit as an adult. Although some uncomfortable themes are covered, poverty, death, the overwhelming impression is of an idealised world. The March family are 'poor' but not as we know it, they still manage to employ a servant! As a young girl, I wanted to be Jo but reading it now I actually felt a little disappointed in her. So strong and independent in Little Women, she spends all her time looking after her husband and boys by the end of Good Wives.
However, this remains one of my favourite books and, whilst of it's time, it is a true classic.
Little Women is a book of it's time to a large extent. The moralising tone that runs throughout the book, which was sweet as a child, does grate a bit as an adult. Although some uncomfortable themes are covered, poverty, death, the overwhelming impression is of an idealised world. The March family are 'poor' but not as we know it, they still manage to employ a servant! As a young girl, I wanted to be Jo but reading it now I actually felt a little disappointed in her. So strong and independent in Little Women, she spends all her time looking after her husband and boys by the end of Good Wives.
However, this remains one of my favourite books and, whilst of it's time, it is a true classic.
November 11, 2024
Amo este libro, y aunque al leermelo en inglés me haya costado un poco, me ha recordado la gran obra que es. Es un libro que recomiendo tanto, la manera como al narrarte la vida de estas 4 hermanas consigue sentirte parte de la historia. Empatizas mucho con los personajes y está muy bien conseguido. Había muchas cosas que recordaba diferente porque tenía en mente la película, la cual es una versión un poco más moderna de la historia, e igualmente me ha encantado.
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