by Louisa May Alcott · PENGUIN CLASICOS · tapa dura · ISBN 9788491053910
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«Mujercitas (edición conmemorativa)» is the novel by Louisa May Alcott, published by Penguin Clásicos in hardcover (760 pages, in Spanish).
Mujercitas follows the four March sisters (Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy) during the American Civil War and shows their daily life, their aspirations and the bond between them as they grow up amid hardship, friendship, love and loss. Published in 1868, it reflects the critical spirit of the nineteenth century and has become a universal classic.
The commemorative edition, with translation by Gloria Méndez and illustrations by Frank T. Merrill, belongs to the Penguin Clásicos collection.
Recommended for young people aged 14 and over and for anyone wanting to approach the classics of world literature; it is common reading in secondary school.
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.
