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Little Women (Little Women, #1)

Louisa May Alcott

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Sep 17, 2012 Carrie rated it it was amazing

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I need to pick up a new copy of this so I can re-read it. I feel like it's been years since I have. ...more

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Mar 05, 2009 Laura rated it liked it

Shelves: book-and-movie, 1001-books-you-must-read-before-you, classics, read-2009, bookcrossing

Following the lives of the four March sisters—Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy—the novel details their passage from childhood to womanhood and is loosely based on the author and her three sisters.

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Mar 06, 2008 Pamela(AllHoney) rated it it was amazing

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I read this back when I was a young teenager. I loved it and then grabbed several more of her books and read them too. The story is about four sisters who live in New England during the American Civil War. Their father is a doctor and is gone to war for the first part of the book. Although, it is about the four sisters, Jo, Beth, Amy, and Meg, the story focuses more on Jo. Jo is a bit of a tomboy sort and loves to write. She aspires to be a great writer someday. It was nicely written in my opini ...more

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Dec 28, 2009 Kelly_Hunsaker_reads ... rated it really liked it

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Everyone knows the story of Little Women, and another review will mean nothing. However, there is one thing that surprised me which I want to mention. I had always thought of this book as a story of the Civil War and its effects for families. While part of the story does discuss the hardship of these four girls and their mother I would not say the book spends much time there and the plot says little about the war. I expected a little of Gone With the Wind -- a book that talks much about the diff ...more

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May 07, 2008 Brianna rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: favorites, 2018-reading-challenge, children, cecily, 2022-reading-challenge, young-adult, classics, victorian-lit, late-19th-c, civil-war-era