Little Women
A lively, layered family portrait follows four sisters through growing up, hardship, and changing ties.
- Themes
- Family relationships, Growing up, Poverty
Sisters in Focus
Come here for
- Sisterly bonds shaped by poverty and growing up
- Family life with plays, pranks, letters, and courtships
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- A nineteenth-century New England portrait grounded in everyday joys and sorrows
Where it sits
- 74%Family Life
- 69%The Classics
- 41%Coming-of-Age
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One of the best loved books of all time. Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read
Lovely Meg, talented Jo, frail Beth, spoiled Amy: these are hard lessons of poverty and of growing up in New England during the Civil War.
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Through their dreams, plays, pranks, letters, illnesses, and courtships, women of all ages have become a part of this remarkable family and have felt the deep sadness when Meg leaves the circle of sisters to be married at the end of Part I. Part II, chronicles Meg's joys and mishaps as a young wife and mother, Jo's struggle to become a writer, Beth's tragedy, and Amy's artistic pursuits and unexpected romance. 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.
For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Publisher details
Publisher categories
- The Classics
- Coming-of-Age
- Family Life
- Authors
- Louisa May Alcott, Elaine Showalter
- Publisher
- Penguin Publishing Group
- Published
- January 1, 1989
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Reading lane
- The Classics