Little Women

by Archie Oliver (Adapter), Louisa May Alcott

Beautiful Meg, tomboy Jo, shy Beth, and headstrong Amy are the March sisters - four young ladies growing up in America, during the Civil War. Their father is away in the army and the three eldest girls must work to help their mother.

Meg dreams of owning a luxurious home, while Jo wants to become a famous writer. Beth would like nothing more than to spend her days caring for her family, while Amy is determined to be a great artist.

Follow the girls' adventures as they learn many of life's lessons, through heartbreak, tears, and happy times.

Genres: Classics

196 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1868

Reviews

[jess · Rating 4 out of 5]

Kind of want to read the full version because there was a lot of time jumps.

[Ragad · Rating 4 out of 5]

My first heartbreak came from these pages. I've been rereading it to my little brothers at bedtime, and it was all good and dandy, though they understood very little because of the Victorian writing, until that particular bit in chapter 24.

"Oh, my sister, passing from me,
Out of human care and strife,
Leave me, as a gift, those virtues,
Which have beautified your life."

I was overcome with emotion, as I was the first time I'd read it. The way Beth passes so quietly, just as she lived her life. My brothers didn't clock she'd died until I had to explain it to them.

Anyway, I loved it as I had when I first read it, and having read it, I was able to understand the Greta Gerwig adaptation better and appreciate it better. Such a radical book for its time and one that has continued to inspire little women everywhere ever since.

[Danistorm · Rating 2 out of 5]

I got a little dissapointed thinking i was reading the whole story when it was in fact just the very first book up until Meg accepts John as her future husband and the whole family have dinner together so that was a bummer.
it was a nice reading i guess. my love for the movies might have influenced it, but i didn't enjoy it as much as i thought i would. I bet it was quite the novelty when it was first published, but i think its too old for me and for this time... i can recognise the credit it deserves tho, there is a reason of why it is so loved and inspired so many amazing adaptations. but yeah, for today and for the kind of books im used to, it was a little boring...

[Haleemah · Rating 4 out of 5]

Written so nicely. (:

[Rhea Ortner · Rating 5 out of 5]

A personal favourite of my childhood reads, was picked off the shelf countless times.

[prathaaaaaaaa]

This book made me miss the “good old days” of me being 6 years old.

[sienna · Rating 1 out of 5]

don’t recommend accidentally buying a kid’s adaptation of little women

[Deb · Rating 5 out of 5]

Read this book several times as a child, and loved it.