This copy is dated 1870 on the title page, in the publisher's maroon cloth binding with gilt titling on the front cover and spine. In 2012, Lifetime aired The March Sisters at Christmas (directed by John Simpson), a contemporary television film focusing on the title characters' efforts to save their family home from being sold. BACKSTORY: Learn all about the author's life and how it inspired her famous story, and find out which of the March sisters you most resemble!

According to Sarah Elbert, "democratic domesticity requires maturity, strength, and above all a secure identity that Meg lacks". Inside the book there are no pen or pencil marks ( front pastedown has wear and PENCIL NAME BLANK PG. Ruth MacDonald argued that "Louisa May Alcott stands as one of the great American practitioners of the girls' novel and the family story.

It was directed by Clare Niederpruem in her directorial debut and starred Sarah Davenport as Jo, Allie Jennings as Beth, Melanie Stone as Meg, and Elise Jones and Taylor Murphy as Amy. BRADY, B/W Illustrated from Photos of Scenes in the Play ,, front pastedown has wear and PENCIL NAME BLANK PG. With her focus on female protagonists and visual storytelling, Green is the perfect artist to illustrate a classic novel known for its timeless depiction of female relationships. Little Women was an immediate commercial and critical success, and readers were eager for more about the characters. At apple-picking time, Marmee celebrates her 60th birthday at Plumfield, with her husband, her three surviving daughters, their husbands, and her five grandchildren.

She was the second of four daughters of the Transcendentalist Bronson Alcott, and counted among her acquaintances the Emerson and Thoreau families. They eventually marry and raise his two orphaned nephews, Franz and Emil, and their own sons, Rob and Ted. Each volume is illustrated with a frontispiece and three plates; those in the first part of Little Women were created by the author’s sister, May. Part of Penguin’s beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design. The bloodthirsty biographies of the world’s most infamous pirates are reproduced in this Folio edition of Captain Charles Johnson’s renowned work, including original woodcut illustrations and a fascinating introduction by Margarette Lincoln.Because of their father's family's social standing, Meg makes her debut into high society, but is lectured by her friend and neighbor, Theodore "Laurie" Laurence, for behaving like a snob.

Mild Shelfwear And Edgewear, Tanning From Age, Crack In Binding On Title Page With Webbing Exposed, But Intact, No Loose Pages, Or Other Damage, Foxing, Otherwise An Unmarked, Clean, And Solid Copy. Little Women became "the paradigmatic text for young women of the era and one in which family literary culture is prominently featured. Any time or place, regardless of a messy past, your best friend is your present, and if you’re lucky, your future.Throughout the novel, the main characters refer many times to The Pilgrim’s Progress and liken the events in their own lives to the experiences of the pilgrims. The first volume, alternately titled Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy, was published in 1868, and the second volume, Good Wives, was published in 1869.

WITH TINY EXTREMITIES CHIPS WEAR TEARS TO DJ,COLOR FRONTISPIECE MATCHES DJ ILLUSTRATION, INTRO BY May Lamberton Becker, Pages clean and unmarked. For all ebook purchases, you will be prompted to create an account or login with your existing HarperCollins username and password. The groundbreaking debut novel of Hugo Award-winning author Becky Chambers, one of the most imaginative voices in contemporary science fiction, is a truly galactic limited edition. Alcott quickly completed a second volume (titled Good Wives in the United Kingdom, though the name originated with the publisher and not Alcott).Illustrated by Rebecca Green and introduced by Jane Gardam, this gorgeous Folio Society edition of Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women celebrates its status as a timeless classic, an early feminist novel and a wonderfully engaging read.