by Louisa May Alcott · Penguin Classics · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140621198
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«Little Women» is the classic novel by Louisa May Alcott, published by Penguin Classics in paperback (224 pages, in English).
The March sisters —Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy— grow up in New England during the Civil War. Guided by their mother Marmee, they face hardships and moral lessons: Meg discovers love, Jo finds her calling as a writer, Beth music, and Amy her ambitions. Neighbor Laurie brings friendship and first loves to this story of family and maturity.
First part of the «Little Women» saga, in a Penguin Classics edition with an introduction by Elaine Showalter.
Recommended for young readers (from 9 years old) and for adults who want to rediscover a classic of American literature.
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 and Amos Bronson Alcott, she grew up among many well-known intellectuals of the day, including Margaret Fuller, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry David Thoreau. Encouraged by her family, Alcott began writing from an early age.
