Little Women

Informationen zum Autor Louisa May Alcott was born on 29 November 1832 in Pennsylvania. Her father was friends with Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry Thoreau. Alcott started selling stories in order to help provide financial support for her family. Her first book was Flower Fables (1854). She worked as a nurse during the American Civil War and in 1863 she published Hospital Sketches , which was based on her experiences. Little Women was published in 1868 and was based on her life growing up with her three sisters. She followed it with three sequels, Good Wives (1869), Little Men (1871) and Jo's Boys (1886) and she also wrote other books for both children and adults. Louisa May Alcott was an abolitionist and a campaigner for women's rights. She died on 6 March 1888. Klappentext Written in six weeks, and at first thought by its editor to be 'dull', this story of an American family - four sisters and their mother living through the months while father is away in the Civil War - has a universal and enduring appeal. Zusammenfassung Written in six weeks, and at first thought by its editor to be 'dull', this story of an American family - four sisters and their mother living through the months while father is away in the Civil War - has a universal and enduring appeal.

Product details

• Authors: Louisa May Alcott
• Assisted by: M. G. Gray (Illustration), M.G. Gray (Illustration)
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 9 to 11
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 06.10.1994
• EAN: 9781857159264
• ISBN: 978-1-85715-926-4
• No. of pages: 528
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 210 mm x 23 mm
• Series: Everyman's Library CHILDREN'S CLASSICS; Everyman's Library CHILDREN'S CLASSICS
• Subjects: Children's and young people's books > Children's books up to 11 years of age; JUVENILE FICTION / Family / General, JUVENILE FICTION / Love & Romance, JUVENILE FICTION / Girls & Women, Relating to adolescence / teenage years, Interest age: from c 9 years, Children’s / Teenage general interest: Girls and women