Collezione Storie senza tempo: Piccole Donne

by Louisa May Alcott

199 pages, Hardcover

Published December 10, 2024

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

[Martina Mazzeo · Rating 3 out of 5]

Ho appena terminato la lettura di questo grande classico. Mi ci ero approcciata da bambina Grazie alle edizioni semplificate di Geronimo Stilton, ma ci tenevo ad effettuarne una rilettura più consapevole e nella sua interezza. Mi è piaciuto molto, mi ha scaldato il cuore e meravigliato come queste ragazze all’apparenza povere sappiano apprezzare ciò che anno è vivere nella semplicità (soprattutto se penso all’epoca attuale e alla nostra generazione).
Ricordavo alcuni passaggi e sicuramente recupererò anche piccole donne crescono.
Consigliato!

[Cristina · Rating 5 out of 5]

molto bello, letto in pochissimo tempo

[Il mio canto libero · Rating 4 out of 5]

stupendo.