num_pages: 612
description: Christmas won't be Christmas without any presents, grumbled Jo, lying on the rug. "It's so dreadful to be poor!" sighed Meg, looking down at her old dress. "I don't think it's fair for some girls to have plenty of pretty things, and other girls nothing at all," added little Amy, with an injured sniff. "We've got Father and Mother, and each other," said Beth contentedly from her corner. The four young faces on which the firelight shone brightened at the cheerful words, but darkened again as Jo said sadly, "We haven't got Father, and shall not have him for a long time." She didn't say "perhaps never," but each silently added it, thinking of Father far away, where the fighting was.
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: 1st World Library - Literary Society