Little Women
  • Published: 2 June 2008
  • ISBN: 9780141321080
  • Imprint: Puffin Modern Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 400
  • RRP: $21.00
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Little Women

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Paperback
5 Mar 2019
Paperback
2 Jun 2008
Hardback
15 May 2017
EBook
2 Jun 2008
Audiobook
16 May 2019
Audio CD
16 Jul 2019
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Rediscover the Puffin Classics - the world's favourite stories

Meg is the eldest and on the brink of love. Then there's tomboy Jo who longs to be a writer. Sweet-natured Beth always puts others first, and finally there's Amy, the youngest and most precocious. Together they are the March sisters. Even though money is short, times are tough and their father is away at war, their infectious sense of fun sweeps everyone up in their adventures - including Laurie, the boy next door. And through sisterly squabbles, their happy times and sad ones too, the sisters discover that growing up is sometimes very hard to do.

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott is one of the twenty wonderful classic stories being reissued in Puffin Classics in March 2015.
  • Published: 2 June 2008
  • ISBN: 9780141321080
  • Imprint: Puffin Modern Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 400
  • RRP: $21.00
Categories:

About the author

Louisa May Alcott

Louisa May Alcott was born on 29 November 1832 in Pennsylvania. Her father was friends with Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry Thoreau. Alcott started selling stories in order to help provide financial support for her family. Her first book was Flower Fables (1854). She worked as a nurse during the American Civil War and in 1863 she published Hospital Sketches, which was based on her experiences. Little Women was published in 1868 and was based on her life growing up with her three sisters. She followed it with three sequels, Good Wives (1869), Little Men (1871) and Jo's Boys (1886) and she also wrote other books for both children and adults. Louisa May Alcott was an abolitionist and a campaigner for women's rights. She died on 6 March 1888.

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