The novel chronicles the episodes, large and small, of the sisters’ progress toward adulthood: their amateur theatricals, sibling rivalries and reconciliations, friendships and romance, and the loss of loved ones. Set in a small New England town during the Civil War and Reconstruction, Little Women, or Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy (1868-69), introduces Alcott’s remarkable heroines, the March sisters-above all, her alter ego Jo March, with her literary ambition and independent spirit. This volume also includes the original illustrations, some drawn by Alcott’s sister May, that accompanied the books’ first printings. Here, in an authoritative single-volume edition from The Library of America, are all three Little Women books as Alcott wrote them.
Asked by her publisher to “write a girls’ book,” Louisa May Alcott at first doubted her abilities she confessed to her journal that she “never liked girls or knew many, except my sisters.” Yet from this modest start, she fashioned a series of novels that catapulted her to fame and fortune in her own time and remain among the most beloved works in all of American literature.
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