Resumo de Little Women - Louisa May Alcott

Little Women is one of the first fictional texts for children to convey the difficulties and anxieties of girlhood, and suggests that becoming a "little woman"? is a learned and often fraught process, not an instinctual or natural condition of female development. The book is a must read for each woman. It was written in 1867 and is a fictionalised biography of Alcott and her sisters. It has become a much loved classic tale and, while some of its issues seem outdated, many of the trials of the sisters are all too relevant today as evidenced by its continued following. Perhaps it is the fun of it, the warmth and beauty of domestic life, or simply the great and bountiful felicity that the March family have cultivated in and around them(selves) - something that every women has to achieve or has achieved and identifies with the same.
Lovely Meg, talented Jo, frail Beth, spoiled Amy: these are hard lessons of poverty and of growing up in New England during the Civil War. Through their dreams, plays, pranks, letters, illnesses, and courtships, women of all ages have become a part of this remarkable family and have felt the deep sadness when Meg leaves the circle of sisters to be married at the end of the novel. After much demand, Alcott wrote a sequel, Good Wives, which was published in 1869 and is often published together with Little Women as if it were a single work. Good Wives picks up three years after the events in the last chapter of Little Women ("Aunt March Settles The Question"), and includes characters and events often felt by fans to be essential to the Little Women story. The chronicle portrays Meg's joys and mishaps as a young wife and mother, Jo's struggle to become a writer, Beth's tragedy, and Amy's artistic pursuits and unexpected romance.
Based on Louise May Alcott's childhood, this lively portrait of nineteenth-century family life possesses a lasting vitality that has endeared it to generations of readers. The book is so popular even after almost two hundred years, that it has been adopted into movies, musicals and plays with illustrative version for young readers. It is a touching story of the growing maturity and wisdom and the search for the contentedness of family life.

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