Little Women

Meg is the eldest and on the brink of love. Then there’s tomboy Jo who longs
to be a writer. Sweet-natured Beth always puts others first, and finally
there’s Amy, the youngest and most precocious. Together they are the March
sisters. Even though money is short, times are tough and their father is away
at war, their infectious sense of fun sweeps everyone up in their adventures —
including Laurie, the boy next door. And through sisterly squabbles, their
happy times and sad ones too, the sisters discover that growing up is
sometimes very hard to do. Based on Louisa May Alcott’s childhood, this lively
portrait of nineteenth-century family life possesses a lasting vitality that
has endeared it to generations of readers. A wonderful story... As a child, I
strongly identified with Jo because she is a writer. —Jacqueline Wilson The
American female myth. —Madelon Bedell It is an essential American novel,
perhaps the essential American novel for girls… Girls come to it on their own.
—Jane Smiley In “Little Women”, Alcott anticipated realism by twenty or thirty
years. —G. K. Chesterton