num_pages: 461
description: Tor Classics are affordably-priced editions designed to attract the young reader. Original dynamic cover art enthusiastically represents the excitement of each story. Appropriate "reader friendly" type sizes have been chosen for each title--offering clear, accurate, and readable text. All editions are complete and unabridged, and feature Introductions and Afterwords.This edition of "Little Women" includes a Foreword, Biographical Note, and Afterword by Jane Yolen.Living in poverty, their father gone to war, the March girls have only their mother--and themselves...Meg's romantic, energetic, ready to start a family of her own; Beth's introspective, peaceful, afraid of everything except her dolls and music; Amy's beautiful, artistic, determined to live among the rich and famous; Jo's arrogant, hot-tempered, funny, a writer who keeps pet rats and detests being a girl.They love each other, hate each other, fight with, scold, nag, tease, and protect each other, through days of joyous triumph and dark tragedy. For each girl, in her heart, knows she has something more precious than money: Sisters.
language: English
title: Little Women
titlecomplete: Little Women
characters: Theodore "Laurie" Laurence, Aunt March, Mr. March, John Brooke, Amy March, Beth March, Hannah Mullet, Margaret "Meg" March, Josephine "Jo" March, James Laurence, Marmee, Professor Bhaer
genres: Fiction, Classics, Young Adult, Historical, Childrens, Classic Literature, Historical Fiction, Romance, Literature, Audiobook
ratings_count: 2139254
places: London, England, New England, Massachusetts, Concord, Massachusetts
series: Little Women
publisher: Perfection Learning