Little Women

My Review

I've read 52 pages and so far I despise this book, the words are in old english and it is so pointless. It came out in 1868 and you can defintely tell. "We mayn't make father angry at us!" That was an actual quote from the book. What is mayn't? And why? I get that it's really old and that's how they talked back then but I can't read this. And so far they didn't do anything, they didn't even leave their house and the books that I read a lot happens in 50 pages so I'm extermely bored.

DNF at page 52 (Aka 11%)

Little Women

By Louisa May Alcott

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 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.

Information On The Author

Louisa May Alcott had many famous friends. She secretly wrote pulp fiction. She wrote about her experience as a Civil War nurse. She suffered from mercury poisoning. She wrote Little Women to help her father. The Little Women came out in 1868.

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