Little Women: Classic Book Guide and Free Edition
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Little Women is catalogued by Project Gutenberg with author credits for Alcott, Louisa May (1832–1888).
Catalogue synopsis
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"Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott is a coming-of-age novel published in 1868-1869. The story follows the four March sisters—Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy—as they navigate their passage from childhood to womanhood in Civil War-era Massachusetts. Loosely based on Alcott's own family, the novel explores themes of domesticity, work, and true love while depicting the sisters' struggles with genteel poverty, their father's absence as a Union Army chaplain, and their journey toward individual identity in nineteenth-century America.
Book and edition facts
- Title: Little Women
- Author credits: Alcott, Louisa May (1832–1888)
- Catalogue language: English
Catalogue subjects
- Autobiographical fiction
- Bildungsromans
- Domestic fiction
- Family life -- New England -- Fiction
- March family (Fictitious characters) -- Fiction
- Mothers and daughters -- Fiction
- New England -- Fiction
- Sisters -- Fiction
- Young women -- Fiction
Gutenberg collections
- Category: American Literature
- Category: Classics of Literature
- Category: Novels
- Children's Literature
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