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On My Bookshelf by Lynda La Plante...
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott inspired me when I was very young. Years later I watched the film starring Katherine Hepburn and Elizabeth Taylor, and was taken aback at how the characters were transported to the screen.
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Little Women is one of the best-loved children's stories of all time, based on the author's own youthful experiences. It describes the family of the four March sisters living in a small New England community. Meg, the eldest, is pretty and wishes to be a lady; Jo, at fifteen is ungainly and unconventional with an ambition to be an author; Beth is a delicate child of thirteen with a taste for music and Amy is a blonde beauty of twelve. The story of their domestic adventures, their attempts to increase the family income, their friendship with the neighbouring Laurence family, and their later love affairs remains as fresh and beguiling as ever. Soon after the success of Little Women, Louis May Alcott wrote a sequel called Good Wives. In the U.K. and around most of the world, this has continued to be published as a separate book, but many American editions have incorporated both books under the title of Little Women. Readers should note that our editions do not contain material from Good Wives unless specifically stated.
Little Women features in the following genres: Classic fiction: general and literary, Family Drama, Narrative theme: Coming of age, General Fiction, Fiction, Fiction: narrative themes
Little Women is available in Paperback, Hardback, Ebook, CD-Audio,
Little Women was written by Louisa May Alcott and published by Wordsworth Editions an imprint of Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Little Women has 384 pages
Yes it is part of Wordsworth Heritage Collection series
£17.09
