Little Women

Name: Little Women
Brand: Recyclivre
Author: LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
ISBN: 9780140366686

LOUISA MAY ALCOTT

03/03/1994
Puffin Classics

NC (0 avis)

Couverture de Little Women par LOUISA MAY ALCOTT

Résumé

Présentation de l'éditeur The good-natured March girls - Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy - manage to lead interesting lives despite their father's absence at war and the family's lack of money. Whether they're making plans for putting on a play or forming a secret society, their enthusiasm is infectious. Biographie de l'auteur Louisa May Alcott (1832--88) was brought up in Pennsylvania, USA. She turned to writing in order to supplement the family income and had many short stories published in magazines and newspapers. Then, in 1862, during the height of the American Civil War, Louisa went to Georgetown to work as a nurse, but she contracted typhoid. Out of her experiences she wrote Hospital Sketches (1864) which won wide acclaim, followed by an adult novel, Moods.She was reluctant to write a children's book but then realized that in herself and her three sisters she had the perfect models. The result was Little Women (1868) which became the earliest American children's novel to become a classic