Meg, Jo, Beth et Amy sont quatre sœurs qui s’entendent bien. En pleine guerre de Sécession, leur père part sur le front. Alors tout le monde doit se mettre au travail. Entre Meg la raisonnable, Jo l’impétueuse, Amy la raffinée et Beth la délicate, les discussions sont passionnées et la maison rarement silencieuse !

Les quatre filles du docteur March

Published to coincide with the release of Louisa May Alcott's long-lost novel, A Long Fatal Love Chase, Modern Magic will take a significant part in the surge of interest in Alcott's neglected works. The selections include "A Pair of Eyes, or Modern Magic, " The Fate of the Forrests, " "Behind a Mask or, A Woman's Power, " and "My Mysterious Mademoiselle."

Les Yeux De Lady Macbeth

Les premiers pensionnaires de Plumfield se sont dispersés mais ils s'y retrouvent dès que possible pour partager avec Jo le récit de leurs aventures et de leurs premiers émois. La charmante Daisy est le réconfort de sa mère, la «méchante» Nan a entrepris des études de médecine et affirme son indépendance. Emil, «l'amiral», voyage au long cours. Nat, le musicien épanouit ses talents... Tante Jo, qui receuille ses premiers succès littéraires, s'inquiète de ne pas recevoir de nouvelles de son cher Dan, l'aventurier rebelle au coeur tendre...

La grande famille de Jo March

POLLY wrote enthusiastically, Ned answered satisfactorily, and after much corresponding, talking, and planning, it was decided that Tom should go West. Never mind what the business was; it suffices to say that it was a good beginning for a young man like Tom, who, having been born and bred in the most conservative class of the most conceited city in New England, needed just the healthy, hearty, social influences of the West to widen his views and make a man of him.

Of course there was much lamentation among the women, but every one felt it was the best thing for him; so while they sighed they sewed, packed visions of a brilliant future away with his new pocket handkerchiefs, and rejoiced that the way was open before him even in the act of bedewing his boots with tears. Sydney stood by him to the last, "like a man and a brother" (which expression of Tom's gave Fanny infinite satisfaction), and Will felt entirely consoled for Ned's disappointment at his refusal to go and join him, since Tom was to take the place Ned had kept for him.

An Old Fashioned Girl

Meg is the eldest and on the brink of love. Then there's tomboy Jo who longs to be a writer. Sweet-natured Beth always puts others first, and finally there's Amy, the youngest and most precocious. Together they are the March sisters. Even though money is short, times are tough and their father is away at war, their infectious sense of fun sweeps everyone up in their adventures - including Laurie, the boy next door. And through sisterly squabbles, their happy times and sad ones too, the sisters discover that growing up is sometimes very hard to do.

Based on Louisa May Alcott's childhood, this lively portrait of nineteenth-century family life possesses a lasting vitality that has endeared it to generations of readers.

A wonderful story... As a child, I strongly identified with Jo because she is a writer. -Jacqueline Wilson

The American female myth. -Madelon Bedell

It is an essential American novel, perhaps the essential American novel for girls. Girls come to it on their own. -Jane Smiley

In "Little Women", Alcott anticipated realism by twenty or thirty years. -G. K. Chesterton

Little Women

"Has she come?"

"No, Mamma, not yet."

"I wish it were well over. The thought of it worries and excites me. A cushion for my back, Bella."

And poor, peevish Mrs. Coventry sank into an easy chair with a nervous sigh and the air of a martyr, while her pretty daughter hovered about her with affectionate solicitude.

"Who are they talking of, Lucia?" asked the languid young man lounging on a couch near his cousin, who bent over her tapestry work with a happy smile on her usually haughty face.

"The new governess, Miss Muir. Shall I tell you about her?"

"No, thank you. I have an inveterate aversion to the whole tribe. I've often thanked heaven that I had but one sister, and she a spoiled child, so that I have escaped the infliction of a governess so long."

"How will you bear it now?" asked Lucia.

"Leave the house while she is in it."

"No, you won't. You're too lazy, Gerald, " called out a younger and more energetic man, from the recess where he stood teasing his dogs.

"I'll give her a three days' trial; if she proves endurable I shall not disturb myself; if, as I am sure, she is a bore, I'm off anywhere, anywhere out of her way."

Behind a Mask

Une histoire toujours actuelle, adaptée six fois au cinéma, le plus récemment en 2019 avec Emma Watson et Meryl Streep (5 nominations aux Oscars dont meilleur film, meilleure actrice et meilleure adaptation).
Dans une petite ville du Massachussetts, durant la guerre de Sécession, une famille modeste, quatre jeunes soeurs 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 fac?onner les destinées de Meg, l'aînée pragmatique et conformiste, Amy la frivole, Jo, la romancière en herbe et féministe avant l'heure, et la douce Beth, à la santé fragile. De l'enfance à l'âge adulte, confrontées à la découverte de soi, elles partagent une joie de vivre débordante apprenant la sororité, l'amitié mais aussi le sacrifice. Ensemble, ces quatre adolescentes impétueuses sauront réclamer à ce monde bien plus qu'il ne semble pouvoir leur offrir.

Les Quatre soeurs March (Lecture et loisir)

Une infirmière, chargée de s'occuper d'une jeune fille considérée comme folle, découvre que l'état de sa malade est dû à de sombres secrets de famille.

Les quatre filles du docteur March

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