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Little Women
by Alcott, Louisa May
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Creators: Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888) "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott is a coming-of-age novel published in 1868-1869. The story follows the four March sisters—Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy—as they navigate their passage from childhood to womanhood in Civil War-era Massachusetts. Loosely based on Alcott's own family, the novel explores themes of domesticity, work, and true love while depicting the sisters' struggles with genteel poverty, their father's absence as a Union Army chaplain, and their journey toward individual identity in nineteenth-century America. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Reading Level: Reading ease score: 77.0 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. Rights: Public domain in the USA. Downloads: 17282