Little Women Collection: Little Women, Little Men, Eight Cousins and More

Eight Cousins #1

by Louisa May Alcott

This collection includes following books:
• Little Women
• Little Men
• Jo's Boys

Plus 3 Bonus Books by Louisa May Alcott:
• Eight Cousins
• A Modern Cinderella
• Flower Fables

This Little Women Collection contains a bonus book club leadership guide and discussion questions. We hope you’ll share this book with your friends, neighbors and colleagues and can’t wait to hear what you have to say about it.

Genres: Classics, Historical

171 pages, Kindle Edition

Published November 20, 2015

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

[Rosalinda · Rating 4 out of 5]

Being one of four sisters, I've always admired Little Women -- the novel, of course, but also the film and TV versions. I haven't seen them all but especially like the films with Elizabeth Taylor, Katharine Hepburn and the latest one, with Winona Ryder & Gabriel Byrne. (Their relationship was my favorite on-screen adaptation.) This was the complete Little Women series, chronicling the story of the March family. I had never read any other of Alcott's work so this was a treat. The writing could be a bit preachy at times but I found it to be a perfect Christmas/holiday book and perfect as a winter read-aloud.
(Rereading childhood favorites as an adult, I now find myself curious about an author's life & their motivations. I discovered Alcott was, in many ways, a feminist of her time. She helped her family from poverty and through her writing found an emotional outlet for her despair. One would never know this from reading her joyous books. )

[Diana Aranda · Rating 4 out of 5]

Esta es una colección de las muchas obras de Louisa May Alcott. Sin embargo, el hecho de que contenga Little Women, Little Men, Jo's Boys, Eight Cousins, Rose in Bloom y Jack and Jill entre otras hizo de esta una lectura realmente valiosa. Siempre he contado estos libros desde la infancia y no me decepcionan de adulto. Si no has leído Little Women, ¡te lo has perdido!