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Little Women

Louisa May Alcott

Format: Global Grey free PDF, epub, Kindle ebook
Series: Little Women Trilogy
Pages (PDF): 537
Publication Date: 1868

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Summary:

With 8 full page colour illustrations. The first book of the Little Women Trilogy. In picturesque nineteenth-century New England, tomboyish Jo, beautiful Meg, fragile Beth, and romantic Amy come of age while their father is off to war. Little Women "has been read as a romance or as a quest, or both. It has been read as a family drama that validates virtue over wealth", but also "as a means of escaping that life by women who knew its gender constraints only too well". According to Sarah Elbert, Alcott created a new form of literature, one that took elements from Romantic children's fiction and combined it with others from sentimental novels, resulting in a totally new format. Elbert argued that within Little Women can be found the first vision of the "All-American girl" and that her multiple aspects are embodied in the differing March sisters.