# Little Women

- Author: Louisa May Alcott
- First published: 1868
- Publisher: Penguin Classics
- This edition: 1989
- ISBN: 9780140390698
- Shelf: Tonight's Classic (one a night, from this pool); World Classics

## Card

Four sisters grow up in a modest New England household while their father is away at war.  
Attic plays, scorched dresses and small sacrifices are told with warmth, humor and an honest ear for sibling quarrels.  
For a night by a small winter fire.  

## About this book

Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy March live with their mother in reduced circumstances during the Civil War, each with her own hopes and faults. Jo wants to write, Amy wants to be an artist, Meg longs for pretty things, and Beth is shy and content at home. Their friendship with the lonely boy next door widens their small world. The second part follows the sisters into adulthood, work and love.

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