One-hundred-and-fifty years since it was published, Little Women still shows girls how to push gender boundaries and be true to themselves! Taking place during the Civil War, Louisa May Alcott’s renowned American novel finds the four March sisters—conventional Meg, unconventional Jo, shy Beth, and artistic Amy—and their mother, Marmee, home at Christmas, 1862, struggling with how to make ends meet while exercising their New England values of charity, honesty, and thrift. The sisters’ father, having lost his money in a bad loan, is away volunteering as a chaplain for the Union Army. Understood to be a semi-autobiographical novel, Alcott’s stand-in, Jo, finds her way as a writer and as a young woman in a society that expects women and girls to play specific roles. And through the short span of years that the novel encompasses, the sisters and their mother—wise, unselfish Marmee—stick together and help each other through setbacks and celebrate each other’s successes.
- ISBN10 1951511395
- ISBN13 9781951511395
- Publish Date 28 January 2076
- Publish Status Forthcoming
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Whalen Book Works
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 128
- Language English