Les quatre filles du docteur March

Generations of readers young and old, male and female, have fallen in love with the March sisters of Louisa May Alcott’s most popular and enduring novel, Little Women. Here are talented tomboy and author-to-be Jo, tragically frail Beth, beautiful Meg, and romantic, spoiled Amy, united in their devotion to each other and their struggles to survive in New England during the Civil War.It is no secret that Alcott based Little Women on her own early life. While her father, the freethinking reformer and abolitionist Bronson Alcott, hobnobbed with such eminent male authors as Emerson, Thoreau, and Hawthorne, Louisa supported herself and her sisters with "woman’s work,” including sewing, doing laundry, and acting as a domestic servant. But she soon discovered she could make more money writing. Little Women brought her lasting fame and fortune, and far from being the "girl’s book” her publisher requested, it explores such timeless themes as love and death, war and peace, the conflict between personal ambition and family responsibilities, and the clash of cultures between Europe and America.

Les Quatre Filles Du Docteur March

"Christmas won't be Christmas without any presents, " grumbled Jo, lying on the rug.

"It's so dreadful to be poor!" sighed Meg, looking down at her old dress.

"I don't think it's fair for some girls to have plenty of pretty things, and other girls nothing at all, " added little Amy, with an injured sniff.

"We've got Father and Mother, and each other, " said Beth contentedly from her corner.

The four young faces on which the firelight shone brightened at the cheerful words, but darkened again as Jo said sadly, "We haven't got Father, and shall not have him for a long time." She didn't say "perhaps never, " but each silently added it, thinking of Father far away, where the fighting was.

Little Women

This carefully crafted ebook: "All the 4 Little Women Books: Little Women, Good Wives, Little Men, Jo's Boys" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Louisa May Alcott (1832 - 1888) was an American novelist best known as author of the novel Little Women, Good Wives and the sequels Little Men and Jo's Boys. The first part of Little Women: or Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy (1868), is a semi-autobiographical account of her childhood with her sisters in Concord, Massachusetts. Part two, or Part Second, also known as Good Wives (1869), followed the March sisters into adulthood and their respective marriages. Little Men (1871) detailed Jo's life at the Plumfield School that she founded with her husband Professor Bhaer at the conclusion of Part Two of Little Women. And Jo's Boys (1886) completed the "March Family Saga". Alcott made women's rights integral to her stories, and her fiction became her "most important feminist contribution" - even considering all the efforts Alcott made to help facilitate women's rights during her lifetime.

All the 4 Little Women Books: Little Women, Good Wives, Little Men, Jo's Boys

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 façonner 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 Filles du docteur March Tome 1

Une année, avec ses joies et ses peines, de la vie de Meg, Jo, Beth et Amy March, quatre sours âgées de onze à seize ans. Leur père absent - la guerre de Sécession fait rage et il est aumônier dans l'armée nordiste -, elles aident leur mère à assumer les tâches quotidiennes. Ce qu'elles font avec leur caractère bien différent : Meg, la romantique, qui va éprouver les émois d'un premier amour ; Jo, qui ne se départit jamais d'un humour à toute épreuve ; la généreuse Beth ; la blonde Amy, enfin, qui se laisse aller parfois à une certaine vanité...

Among green New England hills stood an ancient house, many-gabled, mossy-roofed, and quaintly built, but picturesque and pleasant to the eye; for a brook ran babbling through the orchard that encompassed it about, a garden-plat stretched upward to the whispering birches on the slope, and patriarchal elms stood sentinel upon the lawn, as they had stood almost a century ago, when the Revolution rolled that way and found them young.

One summer morning, when the air was full of country sounds, of mowers in the meadow, black birds by the brook, and the low of kine upon the hill-side, the old house wore its cheeriest aspect, and a certain humble history began.

"Nan!"

"Yes, Di."

And a head, brown-locked, blue-eyed, soft-featured, looked in at the open door in answer to the call.

"Just bring me the third volume of 'Wilhelm Meister, ' there's a dear. It's hardly worth while to rouse such a restless ghost as I, when I'm once fairly laid."

As she spoke, Di Pulled up her black braids, thumped the pillow of the couch where she was lying, and with eager eyes went down the last page of her book.

"Nan!"

"Yes, Laura, " replied the girl, coming back with the third volume for the literary cormorant, who took it with a nod, still too content upon the "Confessions of a Fair Saint" to remember the failings of a certain plain sinner.

"Don't forget the Italian cream for dinner. I depend upon it; for it's the only thing fit for me this hot weather."

A Modern Cinderella

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

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

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