In the Longsellers collection, you will find the most read and loved books of all time.Published in 1869, Little Women, became a classic whenever we talk about women’s coming of age narratives.Little Women chronicles the lives of the March sisters Jo, Meg, Amy, and Beth in Massachusetts, during the 19th century. The book has been translated into numerous languages, and frequently adapted for stage and screen.The book was an immediate commercial and critical success, with readers eager for more about the characters. Alcott wrote two sequels to her popular work, both also featuring the March sisters: Little Men and Jo’s Boys.This book includes the biographical note Ednah D. Cheney by and an excerpt of Louisa May Alcotts journal.We hope you’ll love this book as much we do, and don’t forget to check the rest of the collection for more beloved classics.
About the author
Louisa May Alcott (November 29, 1832 March 6, 1888) was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet best known as the author of the novel Little Women (1868) and its sequels Little Men (1871) and Jo’s Boys (1886). Raised in New England by her transcendentalist parents, Abigail May and Amos Bronson Alcott, she grew up among many well-known intellectuals of the day, such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry David Thoreau, and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.