Little Women. Parts 1 & 2 (Little Women & Good Wives). English Edition

by Louisa May Alcott

Genres: Classics

605 pages, Hardcover

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.

Reviews

[Sabrina Jo · Rating 5 out of 5]

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What can I even say? I love everything about this story. I first fell in love with it years ago in the German translation, then through the anime, and now all over again reading it in English.
Maybe I’m a little biased, this was one of my favorite shows growing up. 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙈𝙖𝙧𝙘𝙝 𝙨𝙞𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙨 𝙖𝙧𝙚 𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙮𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙜. 🖤
Jo will always have my heart, but honestly, every single character is so lovable. Still love Laurie despite his questionable behaviour. But good for him! 😅
If you loved Emma M. Lion or The Natural History of Dragons, you might adore this one too.
This story is pure comfort to me. It deserves all the stars, every time. ⭐️


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Was soll ich dazu noch sagen? Ich liebe einfach alles an dieser Geschichte. Ich habe mich vor Jahren zum ersten Mal in die deutsche Übersetzung verliebt, dann durch den Anime und jetzt noch einmal ganz neu, als ich es auf Englisch gelesen habe.
Vielleicht bin ich ein bisschen voreingenommen, weil das eine meiner liebsten Serien in meiner Kindheit war. 𝘿𝙞𝙚 𝙈𝙖𝙧𝙘𝙝-𝙎𝙘𝙝𝙬𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙣 𝙨𝙞𝙣𝙙 𝙚𝙞𝙣𝙛𝙖𝙘𝙝 𝙖𝙡𝙡𝙚𝙨. 🖤
Jo wird immer mein Herz haben, aber ganz ehrlich, jede einzelne Figur ist so liebenswert. Ich liebe Laurie immer noch, trotz seines teilweise fragwürdigen Verhaltens. Aber gut für ihn! 😅
Wenn du 𝘌𝘮𝘮𝘢 𝘔. 𝘓𝘪𝘰𝘯 oder 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘕𝘢𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘢𝘭 𝘏𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘋𝘳𝘢𝘨𝘰𝘯𝘴 mochtest, wirst du dieses hier wahrscheinlich auch lieben. 🖤
Diese Geschichte ist für mich pure Comfort-Lektüre. Sie verdient jedes Mal alle Sterne. ⭐️

[Sarah · Rating 4 out of 5]

just finished this book and i feel so heartfilled and empty too.

i was taught so many things, i feel like i grew with them while i read it. every chapter was a lesson to me, which, at first, it annoyed me and bored me at some times, but now i'm glad. i'm so much like amy and as she grew, as she learned, i learned too. jo ending up with mr bhaer oh my gosh... i'm so contented, i think they are my favourite couple in this story, as much as in any other.

i learned not only this lessons mrs march gave on little women, but i learned to speak english more fluent than i did before (my first lenguage is spanish).

i have to say, i like amy and laurie toghether, but i think it was kind of weird for how it was ejecuted. i haven't seen greta gerwig's adaptation yet, for i wanted to read the book first, but i've seen clips of a scene where amy is, at first, contradicted about laurie's feelings, and i think that's what was missing in the book, which i'm glad gerwig fixed.


it took me less time than i thought it would, but i feel like it happened years since i started this, for many things happened to me whie reading this that it felt like that. i started a relationship, i broke up, i went to two different trips, which one was a total disaster, but the other was awesome, christmas, new year's, and so much more i can't even remember. this book accompanied me for so short but so long that i feel like i grew with it.

at the end of the day, the marchs, laurences, and bhaers will always have my heart.

[vertigonale · Rating 3 out of 5]

funny, exciting and heart-felt. I cried at different parts of the book, either from happiness or sorrow. some parts were too overly whimsical for me