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The four sisters, each with a striking and strong character, between them represent any girls growing up at any time. Meg, the eldest, is sixteen and very pretty; fifteen year old Jo is a tomboy who loves reading; delicate, thirteen year old Beth plays the piano beautifully while twelve year old Amy, is pretty but a little bit selfish and indulged. How their sisters fill their time with creative activities and good work and how they all fall in love in their different ways with the boy next door is full of period charm as well as being totally topical and applicable for modern readers.
Julia Eccleshare M.B.E
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Little Women Synopsis
This Oxford Children's Classic features the complete unabridged text, an introduction by Laura Dockrill, and other bonus material including insights for readers, facts, activities, and more . . .
Meet the March sisters-Meg, Beth, Jo, and Amy. Growing up in the midst of civil war isn't always easy, but despite their differences, they weather the storms together-bound by their sisterhood, strength, and sense of adventure.
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9780192789167 |
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3rd August 2023 |
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Louisa May Alcott |
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Oxford University Press an imprint of OUP OXFORD |
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Paperback |
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368 pages |
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Oxford Children's Classics |
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About Louisa May Alcott
Louisa May Alcott, daughter of Amos Bronson Alcott, one of Emerson's circle of friends, was born in Philadelphia in 1832. Educated mainly by H. D. Thoreau and her father, Miss Alcott served as a hospital nurse during the Civil War. Her first book, Flower Fables, appeared in 1854, and her next work, Hospital Sketches (1863), consisted of her letters home from the Union Hospital during the war. She first gained a wide reputation with Little Women (1868-69), and her best subsequent work was done in the same field. Her chief publications after Little Women are the following: An Old-Fashioned Girl (1870), Little Men (1871), Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag (1871-79), Work (1873), Silver Pitchers (1876), Rose in Bloom (1876), Jo's Boys (1886), and A Garland for Girls (1887). Good Wives is the second part of Little Women. Miss Alcott died in 1888.
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