Louisa May Alcott was born in Germantown, Pennsylvania, in 1832, the second of four daughters of Abigail May Alcott and Bronson Alcott, the prominent Transcendentalist thinker and social reformer. Raised in Concord, Massachusetts, and educated by her father, Alcott early on came under the influence of the great men of his circle: Emerson, Hawthorne, the preacher Theodore Parker, and Thoreau. From her youth, Louisa worked at various tasks to help support her family: sewing, teaching, domestic service, and writing. In 1862, she volunteered to serve as an army nurse in a Union hospital during the Civil War— an experience that provided her material for her first successful book, Hospital Sketches (1863). Between 1863 and 1869, she published several anonymous and pseudonymous Gothic romances and lurid thrillers. But fame came with the publication of her Little Women (1868– 69), a novel based on the childhood adventures of the four Alcott sisters, which received immense popular acclaim and brought her financial security as well as the conviction to continue her career as a writer. In the wake of Little Women’s popularity, she brought out An Old- Fashioned Girl (1870), Little Men(1871), Eight Cousins (1875), Rose in Bloom (1876), Jo’s Boys (1886), and other books for children, as well as two adult novels, Moods (1864) and Work (1873). An active participant in the women’s suffrage and temperance movements during the last decade of her life, Alcott died in Boston in 1888, on the day her father was buried.
发表于2024-06-02
Little Women 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书
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A beautiful new Deluxe Edition of Alcott’s beloved novel, with a foreword by National Book Award-winning author and musician Patti Smith. Nominated as one of America’s most-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read.
Little Women is recognized as one of the best-loved classic children’s stories, transcending the boundaries of time and age, making it as popular with adults as it is with young readers. The beloved story of the March girls is a classic American feminist novel, reflecting the tension between cultural obligation and artistic and personal freedom. But which of the four March sisters to love best? For every reader must have their favorite. Independent, tomboyish Jo; delicate, loving Beth; pretty, kind Meg; or precocious and artistic Amy, the baby of the family? The charming story of these four “little women” and their wise and patient mother Marmee enduring hardships and enjoying adventures in Civil War New England was an instant success when first published in 1868 and has been adored for generations.
6/22. part one還是非常吸引人的。本人還是無法接受Jo和Laurie的結局,而且第二部分有點無聊了。說實話,這故事的價值觀實在是有點聖母,照這種觀念和方式生活不見得會特別開心吧?按正常人的標準。well,當重溫下少女心。同意這書適合10到15歲的女孩。
评分小时候读过中文版,角色、情节肯定早就不记得了,但很奇怪,四个女孩叽叽喳喳的场面却异常熟悉,像一直没有忘。读完之后破案了:小时候应该只读了Part 1,然鹅结局直接被Rachel剧透了………两遍…………/这本书里出现最多的形容词绝对是tender!
评分在外文書店里買了好多年,最近才開始讀。後半部分漸入佳境,尤其是Teddy失敗的告白以及Beth的離去,都寫的如此真摯、輕盈,讓人心疼。最後烏托邦式的大團圓結局了讓我不滿。Emma Watson在採訪的時候說到Louisa寫書的時候仿佛是把自己的不同特質放到了這四個女孩中,但每個女孩都有一個特點,都是在朝著自己選擇的方向去生活。而所謂女權就是Freedom, 是給予女孩有權利去選擇生活,不是man hatred.
评分竟然Patti Smith序言 重温 // Into each life some rain must fall, Some days must be dark and sad and dreary.
评分Finally got to finish this wintery read before spring comes. I’ve been finding it hard not to get upset when reading old feminine stuff. Fortunately, Not all free souls have to die anymore.
Little Women 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书