With two young sons of her own, and twelve rescued orphan boys filling the unusual school at Plumfield, Jo March - now Mrs Jo Bhaer - couldn't be happier. But the boys have a habit of getting into scrapes, and their mischievous antics call for the warm and affectionate support of the whole March family to help avoid disaster...

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Meg, Jo, Beth et Amy vivent aux États-Unis et s\’entendent plutôt bien pour des soeurs ! En pleine guerre de Sécession, leur père est parti sur le front, alors tout le monde travaille dur. Mais 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

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.

Durante un periodo di forzata immobilità, Louisa May Alcott scrisse sette storie ispirate ai fiori. Intrecciando questa meravigliosa ghirlanda per suo diletto e per le sue ragazze, raccontò dell'amore per i buoni libri e per le altre persone, della ricerca della pace e della crescita personale, di quei valori, insomma, sui quali basò la propria esistenza e che volle condividere con le sue lettrici. Mostrò loro come fosse possibile migliorare la propria personalità, e di conseguenza il mondo, con semplici gesti quotidiani, nella scelta delle proprie letture, nella vita familiare o nell'incontro con le altre persone. Dopo oltre un secolo questa straordinaria scrittrice ha ancora molto da insegnare e le sue storie continuano a essere avvincenti, a commuovere, a far riflettere. La prima edizione del libro risale al 1887 e questa ne rappresenta la prima traduzione italiana.

Una ghirlanda per ragazze

Les Quatre Filles Du Docteur March

This is a series of vignettes by Louisa May Alcott that illustrate the idea by Sir Philip Sidney that "They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts." The reader is introduced to several young women who discover great satisfaction when they do what each can do and still have a renewed desire to be of more assistance while also witnessing the more somber parts of life. In "Pansies" Mrs. Warburton assures others that "hearts don't break if they know where to go for strength." Ruth asks in "Water-lilies" if she can be forgiven her modesty, courage, and faithfulness. Rosamund of "Little Button Rose" declares "you've made my troubles go, can't I make yours?" Finally in "Mountain-Laurel" Becky realizes that she can become a more useful and honored woman by putting the directives of her poetry into her life than by singing for her fame. For the characters of Alcott's Garland, "When everything seemed darkest, good luck came."

A Garland for Girls

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.

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Les Quatre Filles du docteur Marsch" de Louisa May Alcott. Romanciere americaine (1832-1888).

Les Quatre Filles Du Docteur Marsch

Cette chronique d'une année dans la vie d'une famille américaine pendant la guerre de Sécession est bien autobiographique, mais, à l'image de la famille de l'auteur, celle des March n'est ni aussi conventionnelle ni aussi ordinaire qu'on a bien voulu le faire croire au lecteur. Car, de ce livre, ressort la figure forte de Josephine, dite Jo : alter ego affiché de Louisa May Alcott, elle est la rebelle en conflit avec le modèle féminin en vigueur dans la société puritaine de l'Amérique du XIXe siècle. Elle dit qu'on peut être mal dans la peau d'une fille dans le Boston des années 1860, avoir envie de prendre des airs de garçon et nourrir de farouches ambitions littéraires, être pieuse sans être soumise bref, qu'on peut vivre en 1868 et être progressiste.

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