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Little Women (Little Women, #1)

Louisa May Alcott

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Mar 05, 2009 Laura rated it liked it

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

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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Nov 22, 2009 Natalie Hanemann rated it it was ok

I had to put the book down by page 100. I found my mind drifting to all the other books I could be reading when I should have been paying attention to Ms. Alcott's work. Don't hate me!

But I did learn something interested about Louisa. She was a war-time nurse and left when she got ill (typhoid?). She wrote a novel of hospital stories, then six years later, wrote Little Women. I learned that in the audio I'm listening to, The Hour I First Believed by Wally Lamb.

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

Shelves: classics, 1001-books, historical-fiction

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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Feb 20, 2020 Charles rated it liked it · review of another edition

Love and sorrow bound them closely together. Beauty, youth, good fortune, love. Some days must be dark, sad and dreary.

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

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