Good Wives

Name: Good Wives
Brand: Recyclivre
Author: LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
ISBN: 9780140621907

LOUISA MAY ALCOTT

28/09/1995
Penguin Classics

NC (0 avis)

Couverture de Good Wives par LOUISA MAY ALCOTT

Résumé

Présentation de l'éditeur When "Little Women" came to its last chapter Meg was engaged and the other three March girls, Beth, Jo and Amy, were at the threshold of young-womanhood. "Good Wives" opens three years later, with Meg and her family happily preparing for her marriage to John Brooke. 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