Chronicles the joys and sorrows of the four March sisters as they grow into young women in nineteenth-century New England.
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Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Format:
Paperback
Number of pages:
432
ISBN:
9780099572961
Publish year:
2012
Publish date:
Aug. 2, 2012
Louisa May Alcott
Louisa May Alcott November 29, 1832 – March 6, 1888) was a celebrated American novelist, poet, and short story writer, widely recognized for her novel Little Women (1868) and its sequels Good Wives (1869), Little Men (1871), and Jo's Boys (1886). Raised in New England by her parents, Abigail May and Amos Bronson Alcott, who were prominent transcendentalists, she grew up surrounded by some of the era's most influential thinkers, including Margaret Fuller, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry David Thoreau. Encouraged by her family, Louisa began her writing journey at a young age.