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I wasn't sure about this one initially - I've read 3 books by this author - and I loved one, thought one was OK and loved the other until about 90% of the way through the book and the final 10% was incredibly disappointing, so I wasn't quite sure what to expect of this. Especially since it was giving us a different perspective on Mr March, the father of Louisa May Alcott's Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy, who seems such a godly and dependable man in the little we see of him in Little Women - I wasn't sure
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The book Little Women by Louisa May Alcott is a classic that tells of the women of the March family. The father in the story is a minor character as he is away at war.
This book tells his story, predominantly during his time away at war but some background of his youth.
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I liked this book. Though I admit that i have not read the inspiration book, but have seen many movie adaptations. I can see why this won a Pulitzer.
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This book tells his story, predominantly during his time away at war but some background of his youth.
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I liked this book. Though I admit that i have not read the inspiration book, but have seen many movie adaptations. I can see why this won a Pulitzer.
I can also see why many do not like this book, especially how the main characte ...more
This was a 2006 Pulitzer Prize winner. This work of historical fiction imagines what it would be like for Louisa May Alcott's father (A. Bronson Alcott) if he really did go south during the Civil War to be a chaplain. It takes his passion for abolition and his friendships with Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau and builds a story around them, using the rich resources found in the Harvard College Library and other places. The story begins from his point of view and ends in his wife's voi
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I read March hoping that this work of fiction would give flesh to some of the ideas Gopnik presents in Angels and Ages; to some extent, it did. But I could not muster much sympathy for March or his wife, Marmee. They lived by ideals, but they were not likable people, and they did not seem like ‘real’ people – I didn’t understand what motivated them, or how they got to think the way they did. The book was interesting, but it failed to strike a deep chord. Descriptions of some of the battles and h
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I read this for a challenge. It is not a genre i would generally choose and as a novel does not persuade me to read more of the genre. I am never sure why anyone wants to read such depressingly awful accounts of slavery and war. I am even less convinced by its link to "little women" which is, in my opinion the most awful book on the planet
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