MEET FOUR SISTERS MEG, JO, BETH AND AMY IN THEIR TEENS AND TWEENS IN THE MID-NINETEENTH CENTURY. THEIR FATHER IS AWAY AT WAR. THEIR MOTHER IS MOSTLY ABSENT AS SHE HAS TO WORK HARD TO EARN A LIVING IN HIS ABSENCE. NOTHING IS EASY FOR THE GIRLS BUT, THEN, THEY HAVE ONE ANOTHER TO TURN DESPAIR INTO HOPE, TO TRANSFIGURE FAILURES INTO WINS. BIT BY BIT, THEY ARE LEARNING THAT HOWEVER HARD IT IS, LIFE IS STILL BEAUTIFUL.

BASED LOOSELY ON ALCOTT S OWN TEENAGE EXPERIENCES, LITTLE WOMEN 15 AN ENCHANTING TALE OF MORAL VALUES AND SISTERHOOD WHICH CONTINUES TO BE ONE OF THE MOST LOVED CHILDREN S CLASSICS.

About the Author

Louisa May Alcott was born in an intellectual family in Germantown, Pennsylvania, USA in 1832. Her parents had friends like Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Henry David Thoreau. Alcott had the privilege of their company which helped shape up her writing career. During her early life, she worked as a nurse during the Civil War and it was when she wrote her first book. She wrote many books of which Little Women and its sequels are still very popular. She never married and in addition to writing, she spent her time in the feminist and abolitionist movements of the day. She died of a stroke in 1888.