{"product_id":"little-women","title":"Little Women","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFirst published in two parts in 1868 and 1869, Louisa May Alcott’s \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLittle Women\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e follows the four March sisters—Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy—as they grow up in New England during and after the American Civil War. With their father away serving as a chaplain, the girls and their devoted mother, Marmee, navigate financial hardship, family responsibilities, first love, artistic ambition and the disappointments that accompany growing up. Each sister has her own temperament and aspirations, from Jo’s fierce determination to become a writer to Meg’s desire for domestic happiness, Beth’s gentle generosity and Amy’s artistic ambitions. Drawing on Alcott’s own family life, the novel finds its drama in everyday moments, where humour, sacrifice and affection reveal the complicated work of becoming oneself.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eInitially written at a publisher’s suggestion, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLittle Women\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e became an immediate success and helped redefine fiction for young readers, giving its heroines distinct inner lives and ambitions beyond the expectations of their time. Its treatment of women’s independence, creative work, poverty and the bonds of sisterhood has sustained its place in the American literary canon, while Jo March has become an enduring figure for generations of aspiring writers. Warm without being sentimental, and attentive to the limits as well as the consolations of family life, Alcott’s novel remains a moving portrait of the small choices through which character is formed.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFrom the book\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e— Louisa May Alcott, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLittle Women\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOn \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLittle Women\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“This book is most originally written. It never gets commonplace or wearisome, though it deals with the most ordinary everyday life.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e— Reviewer, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eArthur’s Illustrated Home Magazine\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, December 1868\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardner's EU","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":64051983352138,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/thelamppostparis.com\/products\/little-women","provider":"The Lamp-Post Library \u0026 Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}