Little Women Contributor(s): May Alcott, Louisa (Author) |
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ISBN: 149443007X ISBN-13: 9781494430078 Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform OUR PRICE: $18.24 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 2013 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Juvenile Fiction | Classics |
Lexile Measure: 1300 |
Physical Information: 0.89" H x 6" W x 9" (1.29 lbs) 440 pages |
Accelerated Reader Info |
Quiz #: 83446 Reading Level: 3.4 Interest Level: Lower Grades Point Value: 2.0 |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Little Women is a novel by American author Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888) written between 1868 and 1869 in Concord, Massachusetts and Boston. The novel follows the lives of four sisters - Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy March - detailing their passage from childhood to womanhood, and is loosely based on the author and her three sisters. The first volume, Little Women, was an immediate commercial and critical success, prompting the composition of the book's second volume, entitled Good Wives, which was also successful. Both books were eventually united in a single volume entitled Little Women in 1880. Alcott followed Little Women with two sequels, also featuring the March sisters: Little Men (1871) and Jo's Boys (1886). Little Women was a fiction novel for girls that veered from the normal writings for children, especially girls, at the time. The novel had three major themes: " domesticity, work, and true love, all of them interdependent and each necessary to the achievement of its heroine's individual identity. |