Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

"Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott is a coming-of-age novel published in 1868-1869. The story follows the four March sisters—Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy—as they navigate their passage from childhood to womanhood in Civil War-era Massachusetts. Loosely based on Alcott's own family, the novel explores themes of domesticity, work, and true love while depicting the sisters' struggles with genteel poverty, their father's absence as a Union Army chaplain, and their journey toward individual identity in nineteenth-century America. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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Author Alcott, Louisa May, 1832-1888
Title Little Women
Note Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Women
Note There is an improved illustrated edition of this title which may be viewed at eBook #37106.
Reading Level Reading ease score: 77.0 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read.
Language English
LoC Class PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature
Subject Autobiographical fiction
Subject Young women -- Fiction
Subject Sisters -- Fiction
Subject Domestic fiction
Subject Family life -- New England -- Fiction
Subject New England -- Fiction
Subject Bildungsromans
Subject Mothers and daughters -- Fiction
Subject March family (Fictitious characters) -- Fiction
Category Text
eBook-No. 514
Release Date
Last Update Nov 4, 2022
Copyright Public domain in the USA.
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