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little women
generations of people young and old male and female have fallen in love with the march sisters of louisa may alcotts most popular and enduring novel little women . talented tomboy and author to be jo tragically frail beth beautiful meg and romantic spoiled amy remain united in their devotion to each other and their struggles to survive in new england during the civil war . it is no secret that alcott based little women on her own early life . while her father the free thinking reformer and abolitionist bronson alcott hobnobbed with such eminent male authors as emerson thoreau and hawthorne louisa supported herself and her sisters with womans work including sewing doing laundry and acting as a domestic servant . but she soon discovered she could make more money writing . little women brought her lasting fame and fortune and far from being the girls book her publisher requested it explores such timeless themes as love and death war and peace the conflict between personal ambition and family responsibilities and the clash of cultures between europe and america .
tantor media inc 2008 isbn13 9781400158607 isbn10 1400158605
book type jf isbn 13 9781400158607 publisher tantor media inc