Little Women: Louisa May Alcott (Faber Classics)
Jan 2026 · Faber & Faber
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Little Women is the story of the March girls of Massachusetts: beautiful Meg, the eldest, who marries young; tomboy Jo, based on Louisa May Alcott herself, who is courted by the boy next door; shy and gentle Beth, weakened after scarlet fever; and artistic Amy, who goes on a European tour with their eccentric Aunt March. G. K. Chesterton said this much-loved tale 'anticipated realism by twenty or thirty years'.
A new Faber Classics edition of this much-loved tale of sisters coming of age.
A new Faber Classics edition of this much-loved tale of sisters coming of age.
Little Women is the story of the March girls of Massachusetts: beautiful Meg, the eldest, who marries young; tomboy Jo, based on Louisa May Alcott herself, who is courted by the boy next door; shy and gentle Beth, weakened after scarlet fever; and artistic Amy, who goes on a European tour with th...
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About the author
Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888) was raised in Concord, Massachusetts. She was the second of four daughters of Abba May and Bronson Alcott, prominent Transcendentalist thinkers and reformers, and grew up knowing Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Henry David Thoreau, all of whom taught her at one point or another. She worked as a nurse during the Civil War before starting to write, and she later campaigned for women's suffrage and the temperance movement. She died on the day her father was buried.
Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888) was raised in Concord, Massachusetts. She was the second of four daughters of Abba May and Bronson Alcott, prominent Transcendentalist thinkers and reformers, and grew up knowing Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Henry David Thoreau, all of whom taught her...
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