On est en Amérique, en pleine guerre de Sécession. Le docteur March est au front et sa petite famille doit survivre. Heureusement, les quatre soeurs March et leur mère forment un clan très uni qui affronte l'adversité avec courage et bonne humeur malgré tout.

Les quatre filles du docteur March

"I want something to do."

This remark being addressed to the world in general, no one in particular felt it their duty to reply; so I repeated it to the smaller world about me, received the following suggestions, and settled the matter by answering my own inquiry, as people are apt to do when very much in earnest.

"Write a book, " quoth the author of my being.

"Don't know enough, sir. First live, then write."

"Try teaching again, " suggested my mother.

"No thank you, ma'am, ten years of that is enough."

"Take a husband like my Darby, and fulfill your mission, " said sister Joan, home on a visit.

"Can't afford expensive luxuries, Mrs. Coobiddy."

"Turn actress, and immortalize your name, " said sister Vashti, striking an attitude.

"I won't."

"Go nurse the soldiers, " said my young brother, Tom, panting for "the tented field."

"I will!"

Hospital Sketches

Meg, Jo, Beth, Amy : quatre jeunes Américaines d'autrefois, très différentes, mais qui s'aiment bien. Papa est à la guerre, on n'est pas riche et la vie est parfois difficile. Qu'importe, chacune travaille, Maman fait des miracles. On rit beaucoup chez les March, on pleure quelquefois, les discussions sont passionnées et les aventures ne manquent pas, surtout avec Jo, ce garçon manqué, qui ne fait rien comme tout le monde.

Les Quatre filles du docteur March

Une année, avec ses joies et ses peines, de la vie des quatre sœurs March, âgées de onze à seize ans: Meg, la romantique; Jo, véritable garçon manqué et débordante d'humour; Beth la musicienne si timide; et Amy, l'artiste de la famille, qui se laisse aller parfois à une certaine vanité. Très vite, elles se lient d'amitié avec leur voisin Laurie, s'enthousiasment avec Meg pour son premier bal, montent une troupe de théâtre, mais aucune distraction ne peut leur faire oublier l'absence de leur père, parti au front...

Les quatre filles du docteur March (Romans éternels #3)

Trevlyn lands and Trevlyn gold,

Heir nor heiress e'er shall hold,

Undisturbed, till, spite of rust,

Truth is found in Trevlyn dust.

"This is the third time I've found you poring over that old rhyme. What is the charm, Richard? Not its poetry I fancy." And the young wife laid a slender hand on the yellow, time-worn page where, in Old English text, appeared the lines she laughed at.

Richard Trevlyn looked up with a smile and threw by the book, as if annoyed at being discovered reading it. Drawing his wife's hand through his own, he led her back to her couch, folded the soft shawls about her, and, sitting in a low chair beside her, said in a cheerful tone, though his eyes betrayed some hidden care, "My love, that book is a history of our family for centuries, and that old prophecy has never yet been fulfilled, except the 'heir and heiress' line. I am the last Trevlyn, and as the time draws near when my child shall be born, I naturally think of his future, and hope he will enjoy his heritage in peace."

The Mysterious Key and What It Opened

In this sequel to Eight Cousins, Rose Campbell returns to the "Aunt Hill" after two years of traveling around the world. Suddenly, she is surrounded by male admirers, all expecting her to marry them. But before she marries anyone, Rose is determined to establish herself as an independent young woman. Besides, she suspects that some of her friends like her more for her money than for herself.

Rose in Bloom

Flower fables was the first work published by Louisa May Alcott and appeared on December 9, 1854. The book was a compilation of fanciful stories first written six years earlier for Ellen Emerson (daughter of Ralph Waldo Emerson).

Flower Fables

Couverte alternative ici.Dans une petite ville du Massachusetts, durant la guerre de Sécession, une famille modeste, quatre jeunes sœurs et leur mère, guette avec inquiétude chaque lettre du père parti au front. Mais rien ne peut arrêter la jeunesse, et la vie continue à façonner les destinées de Meg, l'aînée pragmatique, Jo, la romancière en herbe féministe avant l'heure, la douce Beth à la santé fragile et la frivole Amy. De l'enfance à l'âge adulte, confrontées à la découverte de soi, elles partagent une joie de vivre débordante et apprennent l'amour, l'amitié, mais aussi le sacrifice. Ensemble, ces quatre jeunes filles impétueuses sauront réclamer au monde bien plus qu'il ne semble pouvoir leur offrir.

Les quatre filles du Docteur March

Six years before she wrote Little Women, Louisa May Alcott, in financial straits, entered "Pauline's Passion and Punishment, " a novelette, in a newspaper contest. Not only did it win the $100 prize, but, published anonymously, it marked the first in the series of "blood & thunder tales" that would be her livelihood for years. In Behind a Mask, editor Madeleine Stern introduces four Alcott thrillers: "Pauline's Passion and Punishment, " "The Mysterious Key, " "The Abbot's Ghost, " and the title story, "Behind a Mask." First published in one volume in 1975, they are regarded as Alcott's finest work in this genre.

Les quatre filles du docteur March

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