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Little Women

The story of the four March sisters in the U.S. Civil War: their difficult experiences, small conflicts, but also great friendships full of warmth and the environment that surrounds them. "Little Women" is the most famous of those novels that were once called "for young ladies." And it is declared. But, entering the channel of a tradition that has marked the literary tastes of an era, Louisa May Alcott is able to create an eternal and timeless story, which is still read by youngsters around the world. Reading age: 7 years and older ...

The author

Louisa May Alcott ( Germantown, November 29 1832 - Boston, March 6 1888) was a writer U.S. . He became famous for writing the quartet of children's books Little Women . Louisa May Alcott was born in Germantown , which currently is part of the city of Philadelphia , daughter of the noted Transcendentalist philosopher Amos Bronson Alcott and Abigail May Alcott. He was born on the birthday of the father, in a letter to brother Samuel Joseph May, he wrote: "It is with great pleasure that we announce the birth of my second daughter ... born at about half past twelve this morning, the day of my 33rd birthday. " Louisa was the second of four sisters: Anna Bronson Alcott, Elizabeth Sewall Alcott and Abigail May Alcott. The family moved to Boston in 1834, after moving in Massachusetts, where his father founded an experimental school and joined a club transcendental with Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau . In 1840 the Alcott family moved to a cottage with adjoining two acres of land along the Sudbury River in Concord, Massachusetts . For a brief period, from 1843 to 1844, the family lives in a Utopian community called Fruitlands, but fails. Louisa received a private education, including teachers are Ralph Waldo Emerson , Nathaniel Hawthorne and Margaret Fuller , all friends of the family. And abolition was a feminist. In 1848 , Louisa law and admired the "Declaration of Sentiments" published by the Seneca Falls Convention on women's rights. Because of economic conditions in which hung the family was forced to work from an early age as an occasional teacher, seamstress, nurse, aide, and later, writer. In 1879, the youngest sister, May, dies. Louisa takes charge of the daughter of his sister, Louisa May Nieriker ("Lulu"), which has only two years. In recent years, become an advocate of universal suffrage extended to women and was the first woman to join the list of voters to Concord (Massachusetts) election in school. Louisa May Alcott died in Boston the March 6 1888, two days after visiting her father on deathbed. Death is attributed to mercury poisoning, contracted during the Civil War when it was treated with a compound of mercury. His last words were: "Is it not meningitis?" ("It's not meningitis?").

The story of the life and career of Louisa May Alcott was told in the book Ednah D. Cheney Louisa May Alcott: Her Life, Letters and Journals (Boston, 1889) and, later, in Louisa May Alcott (University of Oklahoma Press, 1950) Madeline B. Stern.

Title: Little Women

Original title:

Little Women Author: Louisa May Alcott

Publisher: Mondadori

Collection: The Classics
Publication: 2007 (the first was in 1868)

ISBN:

8880449938 Pages: 339

Price: € 17.00