Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

First published in 1868, Little Women is one of the best loved books of all time (and recently featured in the “Women’s Watershed Fiction” list). It tells the story of lovely Meg, talented Jo, frail Beth, and spoiled Amy growing up in New England during the Civil War. Based on Louise May Alcott's own childhood, this lively portrait of nineteenth-century family life has been read by generations of readers – or has it? A year later, Louisa May Alcott wrote a sequel, Good Wives, which is often published together with Little Women as if it were a single work. Alcott later wrote Little Men and Jo's Boys and How They Turned Out, which followed the lives of the girls' children. More interestingly, try Geraldine Brooke’s reworking of the story in March.

10 copies