The Complete Little Women Series

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The Complete Little Women Series follows the March sisters from Civil War girlhood into adulthood, marriage, work, education, and moral self-fashioning, then extends their legacy through Plumfield School in Little Men and Jo's Boys. Alcott's prose combines domestic realism, sentimental fiction, comedy of manners, and the female bildungsroman, placing intimate household scenes within the larger nineteenth-century debates over gender, labor, reform, and authorship. Its enduring power lies in its nuanced portrayal of aspiration: Jo's literary ambition, Meg's domestic choices, Beth's spiritual gentleness, and Amy's artistic cultivation are treated as distinct, evolving forms of womanhood. Louisa May Alcott wrote from a life unusually rich in intellectual experiment and economic necessity. Raised among Transcendentalists-her father Bronson Alcott, Emerson, and Thoreau shaped her milieu-she also knew poverty, caregiving, and the pressure to earn by her pen. Her service as a Civil War nurse and her experience publishing sensational fiction sharpened both her realism and her understanding of constrained female agency. This series is recommended to readers seeking more than a beloved family classic: it is a foundational work of American literature, feminist cultural history, and ethical imagination, rewarding both first reading and scholarly return.

Über den Autor

Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888) was an American novelist, short story writer and poet best known as the author of the novel Little Women (1868) and its sequels Little Men (1871) and Jo's Boys (1886). Raised in New England by her transcendentalist parents, she grew up among many of the well-known intellectuals of the day, such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry David Thoreau, and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Alcott's family suffered from financial difficulties, and while she worked to help support the family from an early age, she also sought an outlet in writing. She began to receive critical success for her writing in the 1860s. Early in her career, she sometimes used the pen name A. M. Barnard, under which she wrote novels for young adults that focused on spies and revenge.

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Erscheinungsjahr:	2023
Genre:	Gedichte & Poesie , Importe
Rubrik:	Kinder & Jugend
Medium:	Taschenbuch
ISBN-13:	9788027380817
ISBN-10:	8027380812
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Alcott, Louisa May
Hersteller:	e-artnow
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	e-artnow s.r.o., Za Sidlistem 22, ?-143 00 Prague, kristoferpaetau@gmail.com
Maße:	229 x 152 x 40 mm
Von/Mit:	Louisa May Alcott
Erscheinungsdatum:	24.05.2023
Gewicht:	1,041 kg