"From renowned author Louisa May Alcott comes the story of a simple girl thrust into the middle of fashionable society. When fourteen-year-old Polly Milton goes to stay with her friend Fanny for the summer, she finds that the Shaw family's wealthy city life couldn't be more diffe...
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"Friendship blossoms into love in this sequel to Eight Cousins. Several years after Rose Campbell was adopted by her uncle Alec, she and Phebe return from an extended trip to Europe, now young women ready to make their entrance into society. Though her uncle disapproves of fashio...
"Rose Campbell has come to live at "The Aunt Hill" after the death of her beloved father. Six aunts fussing and fretting over her are bad enough, but what is a shy and quiet 13-year-old girl to do with seven boisterous boy cousins? It is the arrival of Uncle Alec that changes eve...
"Join lifelong friends Jack and Jill as the pair recovers from a serious sledding accident. A fairy-tale retelling where best friends Jack and Janey--nicknamed Jill--go sledding, make an unexpected turn onto a dangerous path, and fall off a hill. This accident leaves the two seri...
"A runaway finds a new home in a small town with supportive and benevolent friends. Twelve-year-old Ben Brown flees the circus with his best dog friend, Sancho, to look for his missing father. While searching, Ben is employed by Miss Celia, who cares for him and agrees to let him...
The now-married Jo has opened a school for boys in her late aunt's estate of Plumfield--one where pillow fights are allowed and the students are encouraged to explore their interests. With Jo's children, nieces, and nephews; various boarding students; and an orphaned street music...
In 1861, war is raging in the South, but in Concord, Massachusetts, Margaret March has her own battles to fight. With her husband serving as an army chaplain, the comfort and security of Margaret's four daughters-- Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy--now rest on her shoulders alone. Money is...
Louisa May Alcott's enchanting tale of Jo March and her former students concludes with this beautiful keepsake edition of Jo's Boys, the final novel in the Little Women Collection! Ten years after Jo opened a school for boys, the little men have grown up and left Plumfield. Now c...
In 1861, war is raging in the South, but in Concord, Massachusetts, Margaret March has her own battles to fight. With her husband serving as an army chaplain, the comfort and security of Margaret's four daughters-- Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy--now rest on her shoulders alone. Money is...
Her life was no children's book. Louisa May Alcott's story is as full of incident, surprise, and heroism as any plot she invented; her childhood was one of high ideals, low finances, and some thirty household moves. The daughter of philosopher-educator Bronson Alcott, she was hom...
In this literary classic, Louisa May Alcott chronicles the lives of four sisters living outside Boston during the Civil War. The relatable heroines, through countless adventures, struggles, and tragedies, overcome character flaws as they grow up, grow closer, and better each othe...
Little Women, the charming story of the brave and resilient March sisters, has been adored by generations of readers who have identified with the struggles of kind and pretty Meg; gentle, delicate Beth; precocious, artistic Amy; and of course wild, tomboyish Jo, determined to for...
An abridged version of the novel chronicles the joys and sorrows of the four March sisters as they grow into young women in mid-nineteenth-century New England.
Loved by generations of women worldwide, Little Women is a truly universal coming of age story. Set against the backdrop of the Civil War, the story follows sisters Jo, Meg, Beth and Amy March on their journey from childhood to adulthood. With the help of their mother, Marmee, th...
"The beloved story of the March girls is a classic American feminist novel, reflecting the tension between cultural obligation and artistic and personal freedom"-- Provided by publisher.
With her husband off at war, Marmee must raise her four daughters- her "little women". As the years pass, the sisters share some of their most cherished and painful moments of self-discovery as they become women.
Based loosely on Louisa May Alcott's own upbringing, Little Women follows the lives of four sisters--Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy March. Each girl has a vision of what their ideal future will bring, though ultimately experiencing, as most young do, something completely different. Origi...
Une nouvelle traduction, très minutieuse et précise, de ce roman ayant vu le jour en 1868 en filigrane duquel s'esquisse un portrait de la société de l'époque en abordant des thèmes comme les répercussions de la guerre sur le quotidien des familles, la pauvreté ou encore ...