Skip to content

Little Women
Stock Photo: Cover May Be Different

Little Women Hardcover - 2010

by Alcott, Louisa May

  • Used

Based on Louise May Alcott's childhood, this lively portrait of 19th-century family life possesses a lasting vitality that has endeared it to generations of readers.

Description

UsedLikeNew. Remainder mark
New
NZ$41.47
FREE Shipping to USA Standard delivery: 4 to 14 days
More Shipping Options
Ships from Ebooksweb COM LLC (Pennsylvania, United States)

Details

  • Title Little Women
  • Author Alcott, Louisa May
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition Latest Ed.
  • Condition New
  • Pages 544
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Penguin Group, London
  • Date 2010-09-28
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 52GZZZ01IB7M_ns
  • ISBN 9780141192413 / 0141192410
  • Weight 1.45 lbs (0.66 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.9 x 5.3 x 1.3 in (20.07 x 13.46 x 3.30 cm)
  • Ages 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Reading level 1300
  • Themes
    • Topical: Coming of Age
    • Topical: Family
  • Library of Congress subjects Mothers and daughters, Domestic fiction
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

About Ebooksweb COM LLC Pennsylvania, United States

Biblio member since 2009
Seller rating: This seller has earned a 3 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.

Online Book Store

Terms of Sale:

30 day return guarantee, with full refund including shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.

Browse books from Ebooksweb COM LLC

Summary

Little Women is one of the best loved books of all time. Lovely Meg, talented Jo, frail Beth, spoiled Amy: these are hard lessons of poverty and of growing up in New England during the Civil War. Through their dreams, plays, pranks, letters, illnesses, and courtships, women of all ages have become a part of this remarkable family and have felt the deep sadness when Meg leaves the circle of sisters to be married at the end of Part I. Part II, chronicles Meg's joys and mishaps as a young wife and mother, Jo's struggle to become a writer, Beth's tragedy, and Amy's artistic pursuits and unexpected romance. Based on Louise May Alcott's childhood, this lively portrait of nineteenth- century family life possesses a lasting vitality that has endeared it to generations of readers.

From the publisher

Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read

Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design. Meg, Jo, Amy and Beth - four "little women" enduring hardships and enjoying adventures in Civil War New England The charming story of the March sisters, Little Women has been adored by generations. Readers have rooted for Laurie in his pursuit of Jo's hand, cried over little Beth's death, and dreamed of traveling through Europe with old Aunt March and Amy. Future writers have found inspiration in Jo's devotion to her writing. In this simple, enthralling tale, both parts of which are included here, Louisa May Alcott has created four of American literature's most beloved women.

Media reviews

END

About the author

Louisa May Alcott wrote her first novel, The Inheritance, at age seventeen, but it went unpublished for nearly 150 years until 1997, after two researchers (Joel Myerson and Daniel Shealy) stumbled across the handwritten manuscript in the Houghton Library at Harvard University. Of course, Ms. Alcott is best known for a different novel, Little Women, which she wrote in two parts. The first volume, alternately titled Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy, was published in 1868, and the second volume, Good Wives, was published in 1869. Like Jo in Little Women, Louisa also wrote many "blood and thunder" tales, which were published in popular periodicals of the day. She did not openly claim authorship for many of these Gothic thriller stories, however: for some, she used the pseudonym, "A. M. Barnard"; for others, she chose to remain completely anonymous.