Little Women

Little Women follows four sisters — practical Meg, headstrong Jo, gentle Beth, and ambitious Amy March — growing up in Massachusetts during the American Civil War while their father serves as a chaplain at the front. Written by Louisa May Alcott and first published in 1868, the novel is largely autobiographical, drawing on Alcott's own childhood. It is a story of poverty faced with dignity, of sisters who love and irritate each other in equal measure, of ambition, loss, and the question of what a woman's life should look like. Jo March — one of literature's great originals — dreams of being a writer at a time when that was not what girls were supposed to want. The book became an immediate bestseller and has never been out of print.

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