Little Women

Little Women is a beautiful and moving story about four loving sisters. Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy are not from a very well-to-do family and their father is away fighting the Civil War, but the four have the strongest bond and this is enough to ensure each other is happy. Little Women differed notably from the other 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." Written by American author Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888), Little women was originally published in two volumes in 1868 and 1869 and became an immediate commercial success.