num_pages: 477
description: Little Women is the delightful story of the four March girls and their approach towards womanhood.Meg, the eldest and most beautiful, shrugs off her vanity and social ambition, discovering fulfillment in romantic love. Boyish Jo on the other hand, with her contempt of all "lovering", turns impetuously towards writing for solace. Gentle Beth rejects worldly interests, preferring to devote her life to her family, to the joy of music and to timidly aiding all who suffer in life. Amy, the youngest and most imperfect of the March girls, continually tries to overcome her selfishness and girlish pretensions, though he has a hard task before her.The progress of these four "little women" is narrated along the lines of Bunyan's pilgrim, and we are shown how - encountering struggles and learning important lessons along the way - each one attains her own Celestial City.
language: English
title: Little Women
titlecomplete: Little Women (Little Women, #1)
characters: Amy March, Aunt March, Marmee, Professor Bhaer, Margaret "Meg" March, John Brooke, James Laurence, Hannah Mullet, Theodore "Laurie" Laurence, Josephine "Jo" March, Beth March, Mr. March
genres: Historical, Literature, Audiobook, Young Adult, Classics, Childrens, Classic Literature, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Romance
ratings_count: 2139365
places: London, England, Concord, Massachusetts, New England, Massachusetts
series: Little Women
publisher: Barnes & Noble