Little Women (Puffin Designer Classic)

Author(s): Louisa May Alcott

Classics

This classic edition of Louisa May Alcott's most popular and enduring book is beautifully packaged for children today. "I want to do something splendid. something heroic or wonderful that won't be forgotten after I'm dead. I don't know what,but I'm on the watch for it and mean to astonish you all someday." Curl up with this timeless classic, and your new best friends- Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy, the four March sisterswhose lives will bring tears to your eyesand warmth to your heart, and whose stories will stay with you forever.


Product Information

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.

General Fields

  • : 9780141321080
  • : Penguin Books, Limited
  • : Penguin Books, Limited
  • : 0.24
  • : June 2008
  • : 178mm X 129mm X 29mm
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Louisa May Alcott
  • : Paperback
  • : English
  • : 813/.4
  • : 400
  • : illustrations