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Three years from Little Women, this is the second story about the March sisters, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy and their friend Laurie as each grows from childhood into adulthood. Life promises adventures, fulfillment and painful trials along the way, marriage, disappointment in love and a tragedy which touches them all, each of them finally finds happiness, if not always in the way they expect.
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- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- resolvedopen-ended
- gravecomic
- sparerichly built
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- Author
- Louisa May Alcott
- First published
- 1870
- Pages
- 320
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers Limited, Ward, Lock, Penguin Books Ltd
- Editions
- 105
- Language
- English, Chinese
- ISBN
- 9780060559915
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“IN ORDER THAT we may start fresh and go to Meg's wedding with free minds, it will be well to begin with a little gossip about the Marches.”
Louisa May Alcott was born in Germantown, Pennsylvania on November 29, 1832. She and her three sisters, Anna, Elizabeth, and May, were educated by their father, philosopher and teacher Bronson Alcott, and raised on the practical Christianity of their mother, Abigail May. Louisa spent her childhood in Boston and in Concord, Massachusetts, where her days were enlightened by visits to Ralph Waldo Emerson’s library, excursions into nature with Henry David Thoreau, and theatricals in the barn at "Hillside". Like her character, "Jo March" in Little Women, young Louisa was a tomboy. "No boy could be my friend till I had beaten him in a race," she claimed, "and no girl if she refused to climb trees,
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