Louisa May Alcott
1) Little women
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"For generations, children around the world have come of age with Louisa May Alcott's March girls: hardworking eldest sister Meg, headstrong, impulsive Jo, timid Beth, and precocious Amy. With their father away at war, and their loving mother Marmee working to support the family, the four sisters have to rely on one another for support as they endure the hardships of wartime and poverty. We witness the sisters growing up and figuring out what role...
2) Little men
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In the treasured follow-up to Little Women, Jo March returns as a mother of two sons and schoolmaster to twelve orphans. Now Jo Bhaer, literature's beloved heroine has transformed Plumfield, the decorous New England estate of the March sisters' youth, into a progressive school. During the coming year, newcomer Nat Blake joins the other restless, rascally seedlings as they grow under the tutelage of an equally spirited woman who extols the virtues...
3) Mujercitas
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El señor March se ha marchado a la guerra y sus cuatro hijas deben quedarse en casa con su madre, su tiacutea y sus amigos, en medio del bullicio de la vida burguesa de Nueva Inglaterra.
Chronicles the joys and sorrow of the four March sisters as they grow into young ladies in nineteenth-century New England.
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Jo's Boys, and How They Turned Out: A Sequel to "Little Men" is commonly considered to be the last novel in Louisa May Alcott's Little Women series. It takes place ten years after Little Men and follows the children from that book into adulthood. Out in the world they deal with love, ambition, and the snobbery of society.
7) Good wives
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Three years on from Little Women, the March girls and their friend Laurie are young adults with their futures ahead of them. Although they all face painful trials along the way - from Meg's sad lesson in housekeeping to Laurie's disappointment in love and a tragedy which touches them all - each of the girls finally finds happiness, if not always in the way they expect.
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Little Women: The story of the March family whose 4 daughters are growing up in New England in the mid-1800s and of the courage, humor and ingenuity they display to survive poverty and the absence of their father during the Civil War.
Good Wives: With love, marriage, sorrow and heartache, Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy's journeys into womanhood are as different as the sisters themselves.