Little Women
Louisa May Alcott, 1868
Four sisters, one thin purse and a long war, learning to work, quarrel, write and love in a New England town that feels like your own street.
Louisa May Alcott
1832–1888
Alcott wrote it in a few hurried weeks; she called this sort of thing "moral pap for the young" and privately preferred her lurid sensation stories.
Feels like love, tenderness and joy.
What a small bird can do for someone who is very tired.
Jo could not speak; and for several minutes there was no sound but the sigh of the wind and the lapping of the tide. A white-winged gull flew by, with the flash of sunshine on its silvery breast; Beth watched it till it vanished, and her eyes were full of sadness. A little gray-coated sand-bird came tripping over the beach, “peeping” softly to itself, as if enjoying the sun and sea; it came quite close to Beth, looked at her with a friendly eye, and sat upon a warm stone, dressing its wet feathers, quite at home. Beth smiled, and felt comforted, for the tiny thing seemed to offer its small friendship, and remind her that a pleasant world was still to be enjoyed. Books by Louisa May Alcott
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