Little Women Books

In order from Little Women to Jo's Boys
Little Women
Good Wives
Jo's Boys
Little Women
Good Wives
chapter • 816 Pages
Little Women
Book #1

Little Women

Written by Louisa May Alcott & illustrated by Anna Bond
11 - 16
Reading age
816
Page count
226
Words per page
Sep 30, 1868
Publication date
Hardcover
$18.00
$17.10

Summary

Little Women is a novel by American author Louisa May Alcott (1832–1888), which was originally published in two volumes in 1868 and 1869. Alcott wrote the books rapidly over several months at the request of her publisher. The novel follows the lives of four sisters—Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy March—detailing their passage from childhood to womanhood, and is loosely based on the author and her three sisters. 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 in the United Kingdom, although this name derived from the publisher and not from Alcott). 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 Series

Published from 1868 - 1886
3 books
chapter • 816 Pages
Little Women
Hardcover
$18.00$17.10
chapter • 302 Pages
Good Wives
Hardcover
$25.00$23.75
chapter • 244 Pages
Jo's Boys
Hardcover
$16.99$15.97
Year#TitlePages
18681Little Women816
18692Good Wives302
18864Jo's Boys244

The Creatives Behind the Books

    Author
    Louisa May Alcott

    Louisa May Alcott, born in 1832, was the second child of Bronson Alcott of Concord, Massachusetts, a self-taught philosopher, school reformer, and utopian who was much too immersed in the world of ideas to ever succeed in supporting his family. That task fell to his wife and later to his enterprising daughter Louisa May. While her father lectured, wrote, and conversed with such famous friends as Emerson, Hawthorne, and Thoreau, Louisa taught school, worked as a seamstress and nurse, took in laundry, and even hired herself out as a domestic servant at age nineteen. The small sums she earned often kept the family from complete destitution, but it was through her writing that she finally brought them financial independence. “I will make a battering-ram of my head,” she wrote in her journal, “and make a way through this rough-and-tumble world.”

    Illustrator
    Anna Bond

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