Little Women; Or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy by Louisa May Alcott.json

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She didn\'t say "perhaps never," but each silently added it, thinking of Father far away, where the fighting was. We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public. The aim of our publishing program is to facilitate rapid access to this vast reservoir of literature, and our view is that this is a significant literary work, which deserves to be brought back into print after many decades. The contents of the vast majority of titles in the Classic Library have been scanned from the original works. To ensure a high quality product, each title has been meticulously hand curated by our staff. Our philosophy has been guided by a desire to provide the reader with a book that is as close as possible to ownership of the original work. 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Scholars classify it as an autobiographical or semi-autobiographical novel.Little Women was an immediate commercial and critical success, with readers demanding to know more about the characters. Alcott quickly completed a second volume (titled Good Wives in the United Kingdom, although this name originated from the publisher and not from Alcott), and it was also successful. The two volumes were issued in 1880 as a single novel titled Little Women.Alcott wrote two sequels to her popular work, both of which also featured the March sisters: Little Men (1871) and Jo\'s Boys (1886). The novel addresses three major themes: "domesticity, work, and true love, all of them interdependent and each necessary to the achievement of its heroine\'s individual identity. According to Sarah Elbert, Alcott created a new form of literature, one that took elements from Romantic children\'s fiction and combined it with others from sentimental novels, resulting in a totally new format. Elbert argues that within Little Women can be found the first vision of the "All-American girl" and that her various aspects are embodied in the differing March sisters.The book has frequently been adapted for stage and screen.In 1868, Thomas Niles, the publisher of Louisa May Alcott, recommended that she write a book about girls that would have widespread appeal. At first she resisted, preferring to publish a collection of her short stories. Niles pressed her to write the girls\' book first, and he was aided by her father Amos Bronson Alcott, who also urged her to do so. Louisa confided to a friend, "I could not write a girl\'s story knowing little about any but my own sisters and always preferring boys", as quoted in Anne Boyd Rioux\'s Meg Jo Beth Amy, a condensed biographical account of Alcott\'s life and writing.In May 1868, Alcott wrote in her journal: "Niles, partner of Roberts, asked me to write a girl\'s book. I said I\'d try. Alcott set her novel in an imaginary Orchard House modeled on her own residence of the same name, where she wrote the novel. She later recalled that she did not think she could write a successful book for girls and did not enjoy writing it.[9]:335- "I plod away," she wrote in her diary, "although I don\'t enjoy this sort of things." By June, Alcott had sent the first dozen chapters to Niles, and both agreed these were dull. But Niles\' niece Lillie Almy read them and said she enjoyed them. The completed manuscript was shown to several girls, who agreed it was "splendid." Alcott wrote, "they are the best critics, so I should definitely be satisfied." 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