Louisa May Alcott

For generations, children around the world have come of age with Louisa May Alcott's March girls: hardworking eldest sister Meg, headstrong, impulsive Jo, timid Beth, and precocious Amy. With their father away at war, and their loving mother Marmee working to support the family, the four sisters have to rely on one another for support as they endure the hardships of wartime and poverty. We witness the sisters growing up and figuring out what role...

Polly Milton, a country girl, learns the importance of old-fashioned values, when she visits a wealthy friend, Fanny Shaw, who is only concerned with parties and clothes.

When friends Jack and Jill are injured in a sledding accident, their family and friends rally around them to help in their recovery.

Adventures in Jo March and her husband Professor Bhaer's school for boys; a place of light, warmth, comfort, and delights; where self-knowledge and self-control are acquired along with book learning.

Before her wider fame as the author of Little Women, Louisa May Alcott achieved recognition for her accounts of her work as a volunteer nurse in an army hospital. Written during the winter of 1862—63, her lively dispatches appeared in the newspaper Commonwealth, where they were eagerly read by soldiers' friends and families. Then, as now, these chronicles revealed the desperate realities of battlefield medicine as well as the tentative first steps...

After the death of her parents, Christie Devon declares her autonomy and desire to pioneer a new option for women-working. As a single woman, Christie wants to maintain her independence and work outside the home. She begins her journey discouraged to find that as a woman, her upbringing has failed her in that she was not taught a trade, as men often were, but rather the duties of a housewife. Christie first works as a maid, knowing there was no shame...

This is a collection of seven short stories by Louisa May Alcott, an American novelist best known as author of the novel 'Little Women.' In the mid-1860s, Alcott wrote passionate, fiery novels and sensational stories. She also produced wholesome stories for children, and after their positive reception, she did not generally return to creating works for adults. Alcott continued to write until her death. "These stories were written for my own amusement...

Eight Cousins (1875) is a novel by American author, feminist, and abolitionist Louisa May Alcott. Based on her experience of being raised by a father dedicated to education reform, and grounded in her radical beliefs on the role of women in society, Eight Cousins is a masterpiece of children's literature that explores themes of family, death, and perseverance. Rose Campbell is a young girl when her parents pass away. Orphaned, she is taken to the...

Eran cuatro hermanas, cuatro muchachas, cuatro personalidades muy distintas. Meg, la mayor, tenía unos modales serenos de señorita, Jo, la segunda, nunca estaba quieta y soñaba con una carrera de gran escritora. La dulce Beth, delicada como una flor, era la consentida de todos, y siempre pensaba en los demás. Por último Amy, la más pequeña, prestaba demasiada atención a su aspecto y se quejaba más que las demás por las cosas que no tenían. Una...

Rose returns home after two years of travel with her Uncle Alec to find herself suddenly surrounded by young men vying for her hand in marriage, but she vows to have nothing to do with romance until she has established her own independence and is sure she has found a man she can trust.