Little Women: Louisa May Alcott (Puffin in Bloom)

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It was directed by Clare Niederpruem in her directorial debut and starred Sarah Davenport as Jo, Allie Jennings as Beth, Melanie Stone as Meg, and Elise Jones and Taylor Murphy as Amy. Inspiration [ edit ] The attic at Fruitlands where Alcott lived and acted out plays at 11 years old. In 2012, Lifetime aired The March Sisters at Christmas (directed by John Simpson), a contemporary television film focusing on the title characters' efforts to save their family home from being sold.

A little lifting to the intricate laser-cut dust-jacket design at a couple of places, no tears to jacket, book itself bright and unmarked with immaculate pink edging to pages. Binding reasonably firm, general edge-wear, lean to text-block, all page edges gilt, rear-outer-hinge holding but fraying, minor innocuous repairs to inner-hinges. Although as a feminist Alcott personally resented the implication that her March girls future happiness depended upon marriage as an end in itself, she did succeed in pairing off most of her characters, although not in the neat ways her romantic readers had desired or even anticipated.These sisters, and in particular Jo, were apprehensive about adulthood because they were afraid that, by conforming to what society wanted, they would lose their special individuality. Because of their father's family's social standing, Meg makes her debut into high society, but is lectured by her friend and neighbor, Theodore "Laurie" Laurence, for behaving like a snob. Both the passion Little Women has engendered in diverse readers and its ability to survive its era and transcend its genre point to a text of unusual permeability.

After the publication of the first volume, many girls wrote to Alcott asking her "who the little women marry". Little Women brought her lasting fame and fortune, and far from being the “girl’s book” her publisher requested, it explores such timeless themes as love and death, war and peace, the conflict between personal ambition and family responsibilities, and the clash of cultures between Europe and America.Laurie is the "boy next door" to the March family and has an overprotective paternal grandfather, Mr. Somewhat modeled after the author's own mother, she is the focus around which the girls' lives unfold as they grow. HBDJ, 1932 ON TITLE PG, 1ST EDITION THUS, BOOK VG+ CONDITION, DUSTJACKET VG- WITH SOME SMALL EDGE CHIPS TEARS WEAR, Book cover has some rubs along edges and slight smudge MARK on back CVR. The film stars Saoirse Ronan as Jo, Emma Watson as Meg, Florence Pugh as Amy, Laura Dern as Marmee, Meryl Streep as Aunt March, Eliza Scanlen as Beth and Timothee Chalamet as Laurie.