Mujercitas

by Louisa May Alcott

Mujercitas es un clásico que no necesita presentación. La entrañable historia de la familia March ha conmovido, divertido y sorprendido a varias generaciones de lectores y lo sigue haciendo. Con una meticulosa ambientación costumbrista de los Estados Unidos del siglo pasado, la autora describe los avatares cotidianos, morales y afectivos de una madre al cuidado de cuatro hijas, mientras el padre está en la guerra. Los March son una familia humilde pero de comportamiento intachable. La verdadera riqueza que los padres quieren trasmitir a sus hijas es de carácter honrado, a la vez que sensible a las verdaderas dichas que la vida ofrece -el amor, la amistad, la rectitud moral, la solidaridad-. Y sus hijas, en edad de empezar a descubrir el mundo, inician su andadura vital a través de una serie de experiencias inolvidables... Novela desbordante de ternura y buenos sentimientos, Mujercitas mantiene aún hoy un encanto literario y humano difícil de igualar. Recientemente ha sido adaptada al cine en una superproducción protagonizada por Susan Sarandon y Wynona Ryder.

Genres: Classics, Fiction, Young Adult, Romance, Historical Fiction, Audiobook, Childrens

248 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1869

About the author

Louisa May Alcott was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet best known for writing the novel Little Women (1868) and its sequels Good Wives (1869), Little Men (1871) and Jo's Boys (1886). Raised in New England by her transcendentalist parents, Abigail May Alcott and Amos Bronson Alcott, she grew up among many well-known intellectuals of the day, including Margaret Fuller, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry David Thoreau, and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
Alcott's family suffered from financial difficulties, and while she worked to help support the family from an early age, she also sought an outlet in writing. She began to receive critical success for her writing in the 1860s. Early in her career, she sometimes used pen names such as A.M. Barnard, under which she wrote lurid short stories and sensation novels for adults that focused on passion and revenge.
Published in 1868, Little Women is set in the Alcott family home, Orchard House, in Concord, Massachusetts, and is loosely based on Alcott's childhood experiences with her three sisters, Abigail May Alcott Nieriker, Elizabeth Sewall Alcott, and Anna Bronson Alcott Pratt. The novel was well-received at the time and is still popular today among both children and adults. It has been adapted for stage plays, films, and television many times.
Alcott was an abolitionist and a feminist and remained unmarried throughout her life. She also spent her life active in reform movements such as temperance and women's suffrage. She died from a stroke in Boston on March 6, 1888, just two days after her father's death.