"Little Women" is an all-time favourite classic novel by Louisa May Alcott.
The
story is about the March sisters, four of them: Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy. Their father is an army chaplain in the Civil War who
lives with their mother, Marmee, in a
small town in New England. They are a closely knit
family sharing each other's ups and downs and joys and pains… always there for each other, at the same time trying to find their own individual identities within the family.
The story follows the girls' lives and their efforts to increase the family's small income. Jo, the independent and unconventional sister, wants to be a writer and is on the verge of success. They also meet with other friends, including their neighbours, old Mr Laurence and Laurie, his grandson.
Meanwhile, the
girls undergo emergence into their womanhood process and the story takes unexpected turns. Meg and Amy marry. Beth falls ills and dies.
Jo becomes a successful novelist and later marries Dr Bhaer, a professor. Together, Jo and Dr Bhaer establish a school for boys, the subject of Louisa May Alcott's later novels "Little Men" and "Jo's Boys."
This classic novel, with characters so genuine in real life that we can identify in any of them, is simply uplifting and inspiring.
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