Little Women
$27.47
- Paperback
704 pages
- Release Date
1 December 2020
Summary
BE CLASSIC with Little Women, introduced by New York Times bestselling author Laurie Halse Anderson.
Timeless in its evocation of idealized family life and robustly enduring, Little Women is recognized as one of the best-loved classic children’s stories of all time. Originally written as a “girls” story, its appeal transcends the boundaries of time and age, making it as popular with adults as it is with young readers. For this is a beguiling story of happiness and hope, of the joys of…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780593118092 |
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| ISBN-10: | 059311809X |
| Author: | Louisa May Alcott, Laurie Halse Anderson |
| Publisher: | Penguin Putnam Inc |
| Imprint: | Puffin |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 704 |
| Release Date: | 1 December 2020 |
| Weight: | 444g |
| Dimensions: | 30mm x 129mm x 178mm |
| Series: | Be Classic |
| Audience Age: | 8-12 |
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Louisa May Alcott
Louisa May Alcott was born in Germantown, Pennsylvania, in 1832, the second of four daughters of Abigail May Alcott and Bronson Alcott, the prominent Transcendentalist thinker and social reformer. Raised in Concord, Massachusetts, and educated by her father, Alcott early on came under the influence of the great men of his circle: Emerson, Hawthorne, the preacher Theodore Parker, and Thoreau.
From her youth, Louisa worked at various tasks to help support her family: sewing, teaching, domestic service, and writing. Between 1863 and 1869, she published several anonymous and pseudonymous Gothic romances and lurid thrillers. But fame came with the publication of her Little Women (1868-69), a novel based on the childhood adventures of the four Alcott sisters, which received immense popular acclaim and brought her financial security as well as the conviction to continue her career as a writer.
In the wake of Little Women’s popularity, she brought out An Old-Fashioned Girl (1870), Little Men (1871), Eight Cousins (1875), Rose in Bloom (1876), Jo’s Boys (1886), and other books for children, as well as two adult novels, Moods (1864) and Work (1873). An active participant in the women’s suffrage and temperance movements during the last decade of her life, Alcott died in Boston in 1888, on the day her father was buried.
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