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Little Women was originally published in two volumes, first in1868, and the second in1869. The two volumes were issued in 1880 as a single book titled Little Women. It is openly known that the book is loosely based on the lives of the author Louisa May Alcott and her family including her three sisters, parents, and other characters of her life. The second volume of this classic was titled Good Wives which was published in the United Kingdom.
The first volume describes the family of four sisters--Meg, Jo, Beth, Amy, and their mother, whom they all call Marmee, who reside in a new neighborhood of Massachusetts. Their father acts as a pastor in the American Civil War far from home.
They face financial problems as their father lost all the money. Both elder sisters Meg and Jo work in order to support their family. Meg is beautiful and traditional, she teaches four children of nearby family. Jo is a tomboy and likes to write, she helps her aged great-aunt March who is a wealthy widow lives in the Mansion, Plumfield. Jo is impulsive and quick to anger.
Beth is a peacemaker and a pianist, she is too timid to go to school so she stays home and helps her mom in households. Amy is an artist and longs for elegant and fine society, she is still at school.
Unfortunately, Beth catches scarlet fever after spending time with a poor family where three of their kids died. Her illness and infection grow rapidly, her body turns more frail day by day. Jo takes care of Beth, not leaving her side. Amy is sent to live with great-Aunt March replaces Jo.
There is a little love angle between Meg and Laurie's young tutor John Brooke. Laurie is a neighborhood friend of the March sisters. Laurie goes to the college and Brooke goes to Washington to help sister's father and confesses to March's parents his love for Meg. They ask to wait as Meg is quite young to marry anyone. He agrees to it and serves in the war for a year. After serving in the war, he buys a home to live there after marrying Meg. On Christmas, their dad comes home from war.
The second volume circumscribes the young womanhood of the March sisters. Meg and Brooke Marry and have twins. Meg's life revolves around her two little bunnies.
Laurie has romantic thoughts for Jo, however, she doesn't feel the same and declines his proposal. she meets Mr. Bhaer who criticizes and prompts Jo to write better, eventually, they both fall in love with each other.
Beth's condition gets worsen, no hope of getting better, Jo keeps taking care of her dying sister Beth. Amy moves with Aunt March to Europe, so did Laurie with her grandfather to escape his heartbreak. In Europe, Laurie and Amy encounter. Laurie sees a new light in Amy and started falling for her. Amy asks him to pursue his dream instead of being idle and doing nothing.
The news of the death of Beth saddens everyone. The lives of sisters fly around the time and at the apple picking time, all three sisters meet on their Marmee's 60th birthday with their respective husbands and children.
The first volume describes the family of four sisters--Meg, Jo, Beth, Amy, and their mother, whom they all call Marmee, who reside in a new neighborhood of Massachusetts. Their father acts as a pastor in the American Civil War far from home.
They face financial problems as their father lost all the money. Both elder sisters Meg and Jo work in order to support their family. Meg is beautiful and traditional, she teaches four children of nearby family. Jo is a tomboy and likes to write, she helps her aged great-aunt March who is a wealthy widow lives in the Mansion, Plumfield. Jo is impulsive and quick to anger.
Beth is a peacemaker and a pianist, she is too timid to go to school so she stays home and helps her mom in households. Amy is an artist and longs for elegant and fine society, she is still at school.
Unfortunately, Beth catches scarlet fever after spending time with a poor family where three of their kids died. Her illness and infection grow rapidly, her body turns more frail day by day. Jo takes care of Beth, not leaving her side. Amy is sent to live with great-Aunt March replaces Jo.
There is a little love angle between Meg and Laurie's young tutor John Brooke. Laurie is a neighborhood friend of the March sisters. Laurie goes to the college and Brooke goes to Washington to help sister's father and confesses to March's parents his love for Meg. They ask to wait as Meg is quite young to marry anyone. He agrees to it and serves in the war for a year. After serving in the war, he buys a home to live there after marrying Meg. On Christmas, their dad comes home from war.
The second volume circumscribes the young womanhood of the March sisters. Meg and Brooke Marry and have twins. Meg's life revolves around her two little bunnies.
Laurie has romantic thoughts for Jo, however, she doesn't feel the same and declines his proposal. she meets Mr. Bhaer who criticizes and prompts Jo to write better, eventually, they both fall in love with each other.
Beth's condition gets worsen, no hope of getting better, Jo keeps taking care of her dying sister Beth. Amy moves with Aunt March to Europe, so did Laurie with her grandfather to escape his heartbreak. In Europe, Laurie and Amy encounter. Laurie sees a new light in Amy and started falling for her. Amy asks him to pursue his dream instead of being idle and doing nothing.
The news of the death of Beth saddens everyone. The lives of sisters fly around the time and at the apple picking time, all three sisters meet on their Marmee's 60th birthday with their respective husbands and children.
Review
The classic novel of Louisa M. Alcott is a great work of the Nineteenth-century with amazing characters and an emotional plot. The author has penned down the emotions and bond between the four sisters beautifully. It makes you connect with the characters and makes you believe as of you are part of the book.
The two volumes with extended plot and characters represent the life story of four young March sisters and their childhood innocence which is overlapping by elder childhood and then, young womanhood. The stage of young womanhood brings harrowing experiences and inescapable problems, however, the four sisters Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy still try to face the problems and stand by each other.
In this classic, the authors try to pen down the first vision of 'All American Girl' with various aspects which are personified in the differing March sisters.
The novel was well-received at the time and is still popular today among both children and adults. It has been adapted much time to the stage, film, and television.
- In 1933,1949,1994, 2018, and 2019, Many films were inspired by the novel Little Women
- In 1958, 1970, 1978, and 2017, the novel was being adapted for television series.
- In 1981 and 1987, anime versions were made.
The author Louisa May Alcott was born in Germantown, Pennsylvania on November 29,1832. She was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet. She is best known as the author of the novel Little Women (1868) and its sequels Little Men (1871), Jo's Boys (1886).
She grew up among many of the well-known intellectuals of the day, such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry David Thoreau, and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
Alcott was an abolitionist and a feminist and remained unmarried throughout her life. All her life she was active in such reform movements as temperance and women's suffrage. She was one of the founders of the Women's Educational and Industrial Union in Boston.
She was suffering from a certain illness and she died from a stroke, two days after her father died, in Boston on March 6, 1888.
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Rating: 4.4/5
Reading Level: 9+ Age
Author: Louisa M Alcott
Publisher: Harper Press
Publishing Date: 1 April 2010
Language: English
Genre: Classic Fiction, Children's and Young Adult, Action/Adventure
ISBN-10: 0007350995
ISBN-13: 978-0007350996
Pages: 304
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Reading Level: 9+ Age
Author: Louisa M Alcott
Publisher: Harper Press
Publishing Date: 1 April 2010
Language: English
Genre: Classic Fiction, Children's and Young Adult, Action/Adventure
ISBN-10: 0007350995
ISBN-13: 978-0007350996
Pages: 304
Cost: 79 INR(Kindle edition)
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