Little Women (Readings Classics)

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.