Published in 1886 and set ten years after Little Men, here is the third installment of the unofficial March family trilogy begun with Little Women. For Tommy, Dan, and the others, coming of age includes love, marriage, ambition, loyalty, career; adventure in Europe, the West, and the high seas; as well as crime, punishment, and redemption.
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Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888) was an American writer best known for her classic novel Little Women (1868-69), drawn from her own childhood. Personally educated by writers such as Emerson, Hawthorne, and Thoreau, she first gained literary success with Hospital Sketches (1863), based on her experiences as a nurse during the Civil War. Her writing often deals with women’s issues in an honest, insightful manner.