Little Women by liuisa may alcott

LITTLE WOMEN is one of the best-loved books of all time. Lovely Meg. talented Jo ,frail Beth, lpoiled Amy：these are the four March sisters, who learn the hard lessons of poverty and of growing up in new England during the Civil War, Through their dreams, Plays, pranks ,letters, illnesses, and courtships, women of all ages haave become a part of this remarkable family and have felt their deep sadness when Meg leaves the circle of sisters to be married at the end of partⅠ. PartⅡ chronicles Meg's joys and mishaps as a young wife and mother, Jo's struggle to become a writer, Beth's tragedy, and Amy's artistic pursuits and unexpected romance, Based on Louisa May Alcott's childhood, this lively portrait of nineteenth-century family life possesses a lasting vitality that has endeared it to generations of readers.
This Bantam Classic edition contains PartsⅠ andⅡ in their entirety. With and Afterword by Nina Auerbach.
作者简介：Born in 1832, Louisa May Alcott was the second child of Bronson Alcott of Concord, Massachusetts, a self -taught philosopher, school reformer, and utopian who was much too immersed in the world of ideas to ever succeed in supporting his family. That task fell first to his wife and later to his enterprising daughter Louisa May. While her father lectured, wrote, and conversed with such famous friends as Emerson, Hawthorne, and Thoreau, Louisa taught school ,worked as a domestic servant at atge nineteen, The small sums she earned often kept the family from complete destitution, but it was through her writing that she finally brought them fina\ncial independence."I will make a battering-ram of my head ," she wrote in her journal, "and make a way through this rough-and tumble word."
Now a famous writer, she continued to turn out novels and stories and to work for the women's suffrage and temperance movements, as her father had worked for the abolitionists, Bronson Alcott and Louisa May Alcott both died in Boston in the same month, march of 1888.

Louisa May Alcott

Louisa May Alcott (born Nov. 29, 1832, Germantown, Pa., U.S.-died March 6, 1888, Boston, Mass.) U.S. author. Daughter of the reformer Bronson Alcott, she grew up in Transcendentalist circles in Boston and Concord, Mass. She began writing to help support her mother and sisters. An ardent abolitionist, she volunteered as a nurse during the American Civil War, where she contracted the typhoid that damaged her health the rest of her life; her letters, published as Hospital Sketches (1863), first brought her fame. With the huge success of the autobiographical Little Women (1868–69), she finally escaped debt. An Old-Fashioned Girl (1870), Little Men (1871), and Jo's Boys (1886) also drew on her experiences as an educator.

Preface
PartⅠ
1 Playing Pilgrims
2 A Merry Christmas
3 The Laurence Boy
4 Burdens
5 Being Neighborly
6 Beth Finds the Palace Beautiful
7 Amy's Valley of Humiliation
8 Jo Meets Apollyon
9 Meg Goes to Vanity Fair
10 The P.C. and P.O.
11 Experiments
12 Camp Laurence
13 Castles in the Air
14 Secrets
15 A Telegram
16 Letters
17 Little Faithful
18 Dark Days
19 Amy's Will
20 Confidential
21 Laurie Makes Mischief, and jo Makes Peace
22 Pleasant Meadows
23 Aunt March Settles the Question
PARTⅡ
24 Gossip
25 The First Wedding
26 Artistic Attempts
27 Literary Lessons
28 Domestic Experiences
29 Calls
30 Consepuences
31 Our Foreign Correspondent
32 Tender Troubles
33 Jo's Journal
34 A Friend
35 Heartache
36 Beth's Secret
37 New Impressions
38 On the Shelf
39 Lazy Laurence
40 The Valley of the Shadow
41 Learning to Forget
42 All Alone
43 Surprises
44 My Lord and lady
45 Daisy and Demi
46 Under the Umbrella
47 Harvest Time
Afterword by Nina Auerbach
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