| Little women Contributor(s): Alcott, Louisa May (Author) |
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ISBN: 1979529876 ISBN-13: 9781979529877 Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform OUR PRICE: $27.08 Product Type: Paperback Published: November 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Collections |
| Lexile Measure: 580 |
| Physical Information: 1.6" H x 6" W x 9" (2.34 lbs) 808 pages |
| Accelerated Reader Info |
| Quiz #: 83446 Reading Level: 3.4 Interest Level: Lower Grades Point Value: 2.0 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Little Women was an immediate commercial and critical success, and readers demanded to know more about the characters. Alcott quickly completed a second volume, entitled Good Wives. It was also successful. The two volumes were issued in 1880 in a single work entitled Little Women. Alcott also wrote two sequels to her popular work, both of which also featured the March sisters: Little Men (1871) and Jo's Boys (1886). Although Little Women was a novel for girls, it differed notably from the current writings for children, especially girls. The novel addressed three major themes: "domesticity, work, and true love, all of them interdependent and each necessary to the achievement of its heroine's individual identity." Little Women "has been read as a romance or as a quest, or both. It has been read as a family drama that validates virtue over wealth", but also "as a means of escaping that life by women who knew its gender constraints only too well". According to Sarah Elbert, Alcott created a new form of literature, one that took elements from Romantic children's fiction and combined it with others from sentimental novels, resulting in a totally new format. Elbert argued that within Little Women can be found the first vision of the "All-American girl" and that her multiple aspects are embodied in the differing March sisters. |