Little Women
Four sisters, one attic, and a heroine who wanted to write far more than she wanted to marry.
Alcott wrote it quickly, for money, after her publisher asked for a book for girls, and produced the most durable American novel about sisters. The March girls, Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy, grow up poor and genteel while their father is away at the war. What survives is not the moral scaffolding but Jo herself: ambitious, furious, writing in the attic, resisting the ending her readers demanded.
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