Louisa May Alcott

In New England during the Civil War, four sisters experience joys and hardships together.

Little Women

Little Women is a novel by American author Louisa May Alcott, which was originally published in two volumes in 1868 and 1869 The novel follows the lives of four sisters — Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy March — detailing their passage from childhood to womanhood. They live with their mother, facing Christmas without their father as the American Civil War is underway. The novel has been read as a family drama that validates "virtue over wealth". In 2003 Little Women was ranked number 18 in The Big Read, a survey of the British public by the BBC to determine the "Nation's Best-loved Novel".

Little Woman

Yearning for romance and adventure, strong-willed eighteen-year-old Rosamond Vivian is seduced by the wealthy Phillip Tempest and is forced to flee his violent tendencies

A Long Fatal Love Chase

Wini Moranville

Experience the exciting and heartwarming world of the March sisters and Little Women right in your own kitchen. Here at last is the first cookbook to celebrate the scrumptious and comforting foods that play a prominent role in Louisa May Alcott’s classic novel Little Women. If your family includes a Little Women fan, or if you yourself are one, with this book you can keep the magic and wonder of the beloved tale alive for years to come. Do you wonder what makes the characters so excited to make—and eat!—sweets and desserts like the exotically named Blancmange or the mysterious Bonbons with Mottoes, along with favorites like Apple Turnovers, Plum Pudding, and Gingerbread Cake? Find out for yourself with over 50 easy-to-make recipes for these delectable treats and more, all updated for the modern kitchen. From Hannah’s Pounded Potatoes to Amy’s Picnic Lemonade, from the charming Chocolate Drop Cookies that Professor Bhaer always offers to Meg’s twins to hearty dinners that Hannah and Marmee encourage the March sisters to learn to make, you’ll find an abundance of delicious teatime drinks and snacks, plus breakfasts, brunches, lunches, suppers, and desserts. Featuring full-color photos, evocative illustrations, fun and uplifting quotes from the novel, and anecdotes about Louisa May Alcott, this is a book that any Little Women fan will love to have.

Tempting Recipes from the March Sisters and Their Friends and Family

The Little Women Cookbook

Piccole donne

As quatro irmãs March são muito diferentes entre si. A já adulta Meg; Jo, a moleca impulsiva; Beth, tímida e introvertida; e Amy, a precoce caçula. Mas com o pai longe de casa, na guerra, e a mãe trabalhando para sustentar a família, elas precisam cooperar e apoiar umas às outras. Encenam peças, fundam sociedades secretas, preparam os festejos de Natal, dão os primeiros passos na sociedade adulta e aprendem o valor da amizade verdadeira. É com o coração pleno que acompanhamos as dúvidas, as aventuras e desventuras dessas adoráveis meninas, nesta história atemporal emocionante que nos faz vibrar e sorrir.

Mulherzinhas

Follows the experiences of an impoverished Italian orphan who wins the affections of a lord and the ire of an evil matron.

The Inheritance

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When friends Jack and Jill are injured in a sledding accident, their family and friends rally around them to help in their recovery.

Jack and Jill

Une année, avec ses joies et ses peines, de la vie de Meg, Jo, Beth et Amy March, quatre sœurs âgées de onze à seize ans. Leur père absent - la guerre de Sécession fait rage et il est aumônier dans l'armée nordiste, - elles aident leur mère à assumer les tâches quotidiennes. Ce qu'elles font avec leur caractère bien différent : Meg, la romantique, qui va éprouver les émois d'un premier amour ; Jo, qui ne se départit jamais d'un humour à toute épreuve ; la généreuse Beth, la blonde Amy, enfin, qui se laisse aller parfois à une certaine vanité...

Les quatre filles du docteur March

This beautiful collectible edition presents three novels from one of the most beloved American authors: Louisa May Alcott. It includes her most famous and cherished classic, Little Women, about the lives of four sisters in Civil War-era America, as well as its sequels, Little Men and Jo's Boys.

Little Women and Other Novels

R. Guarnieri

The second story about the March family. Three years on from 'Little women' the March girls and their friend Laurie are young adults with their futures ahead of them. Although they all face painful trials along the way - from Meg's sad lesson in housekeeping to Laurie's disappointment in love and a tragedy which touches them all - each of the girls finally finds happiness, if not always in the way they expect.

Good Wives

Features the author's popular Christmas stories, which authentically reflect Christmas in nineteenth-century America and focus on generosity and charity.

And Other Christmas Stories

A Merry Christmas

The new governess, Miss Jean Muir, has arrived at Coventry House to begin the task of teaching 16-year-old Bella music, French, and drawing. Mrs. Coventry, Bella's mother, has agreed to allow Miss Muir thirty days to see if she is able to accept the educational schedule for which she is hired. After Miss Muir demonstrates her skills to the satisfaction of Mrs. Coventry, brothers Edward and Gerald, and cousin Lucia, she is shown to her living quarters. When she is alone and the curtains are drawn, she pours herself an ardent cordial from a flask she pulls out of her luggage and thinks about her plans for the next day. She has told the mother that she is nineteen years old, but when she removes her makeup and braids she is suddenly 30 and falls asleep quickly and deeply. A complicated scheme of romance and rebellion, cunning and courtesy, stagecraft and assistance is slowly untangled as she uses her accomplishments and sympathies to work her way to the very heart of the Coventry.

Behind a Mask, Or, a Woman's Power

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A story about a nineteenth-century woman's search for a meaningful life through work outside the family sphere, Work is at once Alcott's exploration of her personal challenges and a social critique of America.

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