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HOWEVER, my memory of the book is very distant and it has been supplanted by the movie version, with Susan Sarandon as the mother. Newly type-set and produced on high-quality paper in trade paperback format, the Broadview Editions series is a delight to handle as well as to read. I’m glad so many people have gotten over their initial disappointment and accepted the Jo/Laurie non-matchup, but I don’t think I ever will. and Jo confesses the fact to her mother that she wants to “go away somewhere this winter for a change” in part because she believes Laurie is too fond of her and at this time Marmee tells Jo that “I don’t think you are suited to one another.

The American philosophical movement of transcendentalism is closely associated with religious beliefs of Unitarianism, but neither doctrine is mentioned in Little Women. As a teenager, I was put off by Alcott’s picture of Friedric, but as I’ve grown older and closer to his age (haha! I really enjoyed reading all these replies, but could anyone solve my dilemma over Laurie’s explanation to Amy when she asked why you are proposing to me when you declared your love to Jo? Ultimately, Alcott wove her own personal ideologies into Little Women: the novel is coloured by her early years growing up with three sisters, but also her later experiences as an active member of the suffrage movement, an abolitionist whose childhood home was a stop on the Underground Railroad and a nurse who served during the Civil War.The novel has two sequels: Little Men: Life at Plumfield with Jo’s Boys (1871) and Jo’s Boys and How They Turned Out (1886).

This copy DOES mention Part 2 at the end of the text, but not on the title page or on the spine, suggesting that the publisher used a cover left over from the first batch (before Part 2 was added to the spine). It was an immediate success, and Roberts Brothers set about reprinting it in a somewhat disorganized manner.I always got the feeling that Laurie mostly wanted to be a part of the March family, and that Amy wanted to marry money. Austin, who thanks Alcott in her preface for her help, but it is unclear exactly what Alcott’s role was in the writing of this novel. Encyclopaedia Britannica's editors oversee subject areas in which they have extensive knowledge, whether from years of experience gained by working on that content or via study for an advanced degree. Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design.

Louisa May Alcott cleverly reveals important aspects of their personalities in the opening four lines: Josephine or Jo is lying on the floor because she’s a tomboy. I am very fond of the Dashwoods and the Bennets, and although the four women of the TV series Sex and the City and Girls were not sisters in the biological sense, I enjoyed their interactions, travails, and insights. From a twenty-first century perspective, it’s obvious Beth suffers from severe social anxiety, and it says something about mental illness in the 19th century that the solution was not seen to be “find a way to fix Beth” but “find a way to adjust Beth’s environment so she won’t have to be placed in situations that make her anxious. Yet, the public confession that I had never read the book unnerved me, and as soon as I left my response to Esther's post, I realized that it had to be followed by a public atonement. Even in the later books, when all the principal characters are grown up and married, the only real spark of energy in the adult protagonists comes when Jo and Laurie, now brother- and sister-in-law, are together, joking, teasing each other, or collaborating on a project.This is weird when you realize that Alcott based the story largely on her own family, and that the real-life Alcotts were big-time abolitionists. Eleven stories from Lulu’s Library and A Garland for Girls were printed in their first separate editions in attractive pictorial cloth bindings between 1899 and 1904 by Little, Brown and Company of Boston. I think my problem with the opening of Little Women was the way that Louisa May Alcott introduces all four sisters right up front, and gives each character a turn as if she were dealing a hand of poker. But I might have my own bias going too, as I married my best friend, and I’m absolutely loving marriage to him ;)) – perhaps in response from the clamor readers regarding Part 1 that Jo and Laurie marry, her own desire for an unconventional or realistic ending, or for the sake of her father’s educational and career agenda (to marry her heroine off to an older professor, with whom she then founds a school – I feel there’s a bit of paternal influence there from Bronson Alcott). First of all, if you’re one of the tiny unfortunate group of people who has never read Little Women (in which case, why are you still reading this post?

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