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Little Women or Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy

Door Louisa May Alcott

Categorie
Engels
Boeknummer
#352318-XC38
Titel
Little Women or Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy
Auteur
Alcott, Louisa May
Boektype
Gebonden hardcover
Uitgeverij
Norwalk, CT : The Easton Press
Jaar van uitgave
1976
Taal
Engels
Beschrijving
Original gilt lettered and decorated brown genuine leather with hubbed spine, all edges gilt, silk endpapers, ribbon marker, introduction by Edward Weeks, illustrations by Henry C. Pitz, 8vo. The 100 Greatest Books Ever Written, Collector's Edition.
Samenvatting
Generations of readers young and old, male and female, have fallen in love with the March sisters of Louisa May Alcott's most popular and enduring novel, Little Women. Here are talented tomboy and author-to-be Jo, tragically frail Beth, beautiful Meg, and romantic, spoiled Amy, united in their devotion to each other and their struggles to survive in New England during the Civil War. It is no secret that Alcott based Little Women on her own early life. While her father, the freethinking reformer and abolitionist Bronson Alcott, hobnobbed with such eminent male authors as Emerson, Thoreau, and Hawthorne, Louisa supported herself and her sisters with "woman's work,” including sewing, doing laundry, and acting as a domestic servant. But she soon discovered she could make more money ... (Lees verder)writing. Little Women brought her lasting fame and fortune, and far from being the "girl's book” her publisher requested, it explores such timeless themes as love and death, war and peace, the conflict between personal ambition and family responsibilities, and the clash of cultures between Europe and America.
Pagina's
428
Conditie
Goed
Prijs
€ 25,00

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