Little Women – Louisa May Alcott (1912)

S$110.00

Little Women – Louisa May Alcott (1912)

S$110.00

Title: Little Women

Author: Louisa May Alcott, Harold Copping (illus)

Publisher: The Religious Tract Society, 1912.

Condition: Hardcover, no dust jacket. Pictorial cloth. Good. Some wear and rubbing to cover. Slight foxing, Uncut pages. Inscription to blank fly leaf. With 8 colour plates. 319pp. App 9.5″ by 7″. A heavy book. Overseas shipping will cost extra.

About the book (from Wikipedia):

Little Women is a novel by American author Louisa May Alcott (1832–1888), which was originally published in two volumes in 1868 and 1869. Alcott wrote the books rapidly over several months at the request of her publisher. The novel follows the lives of four sisters—Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy March—detailing their passage from childhood to womanhood, and is loosely based on the author and her three sisters.

Little Women “has been read as a romance or as a quest, or both. It has been read as a family drama that validates virtue over wealth”, but also “as a means of escaping that life by women who knew its gender constraints only too well”.