Alice Barber Stephens

THE LITTLE WOMEN TRILOGY (Illustrated and Annotated) Alice Barber Stephens

Maybe You will receive a letter from Miss May Alcoot. You will open it and discover her very famous trilogy, with remarkable illustrations ... Perhaps, you will not be able to answer her directly, but only have a good time. (Barry) In this new unique edition, the complete trilogy by the American author Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888) with illustrations.
Annotated by Mary Stoyell Stimpson: "LOUISA MAY ALCOTT".
From, THE CHILD'S BOOK OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY.
-Little Women, or Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy (1868.). Part Second of Little Women, or "Good Wives", published in 1869; and afterward published together with Little Women.
-Little Men, or Life at Plumfield with Jo's Boys (1871).
-Jo's Boys and How They Turned Out: A Sequel to "Little Men" (1886). The first volume, "Little Women" or Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy, is a novel originally published in two volumes in 1868 and 1869. Alcott wrote the book over several months at the request of her publisher. The story follows the lives of the four March sisters-Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy-and details their passage from childhood to womanhood. It is loosely based on the lives of the author and her three sisters. Scholars classify it as an autobiographical or semi-autobiographical novel.
Alcott wrote two sequels to her popular work, both of which also featured the March sisters: "Little Men" (1871) and "Jo's Boys" (1886). The novel addresses three major themes: "domesticity, work, and true love, all of them interdependent and each necessary to the achievement of its heroine's individual identity. 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.