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Little Women or Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy (1868), by Louisa M. Alcott

Little Women or Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy (1868), by Louisa M. Alcott

Alcott, Louisa M.

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Classic Fiction

ISBN10: 1530952395
ISBN13: 9781530952397
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Apr 8 2016
Pages: 298
Weight: 1.31
Height: 0.62 Width: 7.99 Depth: 10.00
Language: English
Little women, or, Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy NOVEL by Louisa May Alcott (Original Classics) This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable price, in an attractive volume so that everyone can enjoy them. Louisa May Alcott November 29, 1832 March 6, 1888) was an American novelist and poet best known as the author of the novel Little Women (1868) and its sequels Little Men (1871) and Jo's Boys (1886). Raised by her transcendentalist parents, Abigail May and Amos Bronson Alcott in New England, she grew up among many of the well-known intellectuals of the day such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry David Thoreau. Nevertheless, her family suffered severe financial difficulties and Alcott worked to help support the family from an early age. She began to receive critical success for her writing in the 1860s. Early in her career, she sometimes used the pen name A. M. Barnard and under it wrote novels for young adults. Published in 1868, Little Women is set in the Alcott family home, Orchard House, in Concord, Massachusetts and is loosely based on Alcott's childhood experiences with her three sisters. The novel was very well received and is still a popular children's novel today, filmed several times. Alcott was an abolitionist and a feminist and remained unmarried throughout her life. She died in Boston on March 6, 1888. Henry James called her The novelist of children... the Thackeray, the Trollope, of the nursery and the schoolroom.

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