Louisa May Alcott

Gebundenes Buch

Little Women - Lined Journal & Novel

Beschreibung

Chiltern creates the most beautiful editions of the World's finest literature. Your favorite classic titles in a way you have never seen them before: the tactile layers, fine details and beautiful colors of these remarkable covers make these books feel extra special and look striking on any shelf. This elegant, yet carefully designed gift pack, comes with a copy of the novel Little Women and a matching lined journal These elegant journals include carefully selected quotes on every spread, taken from one of the world's best selling classics ever written, Little Women. They contain lined paper of the highest quality, an elastic banding which can be used to keep your journal closed securely, to save a page that you may want to go back to add notes or your very own inspirational quotes. Each journal in the collection features a high gloss embossed cover with stunning artwork. Louisa May Alcott's Little Women follows the lives, loves and tribulations of four sisters (Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy) growing up during the American Civil War. The story is based on the childhood experiences Alcott shared with her real-life sisters, Anna, May and Elizabeth. The March family live in a small house next door to the Laurence mansion, where young Theodore Laurence, known as Laurie, and his aged grandfather have only each other for company. Old Mr. Laurence is wealthy, and he indulges every wish of his grandson, but often Laurie is lonely. When the lamps are lit and the shades are up in the March house, he can see the four March sisters, with their mother in the center, seated around a cheerful fire. He learns to know them by name before he meets them, and, in his imagination, he almost feels himself a member of the family. Alcott intricately explores the rich nuances of family and family relationships with each character. Avid Alcott readers often identify in themselves one of the four sisters at various phases in their own lives. It's a perfect story for Christmas, or any time of year; a fine example of Romanticism. ** The Chiltern edition of Little Women contains the original first part story. A beautiful edition of the second part of the story called Good Wives is also available **

Autor

Louisa May Alcott was born in 1832 in Germantown, Pennsylvania, but grew up in Concord, Massachusetts. Educated by her father, the Transcendentalist thinker Bronson Alcott, she was influenced by the prominent men of his circle. Emerson, Hawthorne, Parker and Thoreau. The family was usually short of money, and she worked at various tasks from sewing to writing to help to support it. The Civil War broke out in 1861, and in 1862 she began to work as a volunteer army nurse in a Union Hospital. Out of this came her first book, Hospital Sketches (1863); she went on to write several Gothic romances and thrillers. With the publication of Little Women, her first full-length novel for girls, Alcott leapt from being an obscure, struggling New England writer to becoming the best-selling American author of the century.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Chiltern Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. August 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 191mm x 129mm x 42mm
• Gewicht: 806g
• ISBN-13: 9781914602382
• ISBN-10: 1914602382
• Artikelnr.: 70110810