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Little Women occurs as novel by Louisa May Alcott published on September 30, 1868, concerning a peoples & loves of quaternity sisters (from either oldest to immature: Million, Jo, Beth, & Amy) growing higher when you took a American Civil War. It was according to her have lives as a tike within Concord, MA. Fallowing tremendously require, Louisthe Can Alcott wrote a sequel, Good Wives, which was published in 1869 and is often published together sustaining Little Women. Late she wrote Little Men and ''Jo's Boys and How else It Turned Out'' which followed a endures of the girls' tykes.

Notable Film and Television Adaptations

1994: Little Women, starring Susan Sarandon as Marmee March, Winona Ryder as Josephine 'Jo' March, Kirsten Dunst as the immature Amy March & Claire Danes as Elizabeth 'Beth' March.

1978: Little Women, starring Meredith Baxter as Meg March, Susan Dey as Josephine 'Jo' March, Eve Plumb as Elizabeth 'Beth' March, William Shatner as Friedrich Bhaer, Greer Garson as Aunt March & Robert Young as Grandpa James Lawrence.

1949: Little Women, starring Elizabeth Taylor as Amy March, June Allyson as Josephine 'Jo' March, Janet Leigh as Margaret 'Meg' March/Brooke, Margaret O'Brien as Elizabeth 'Beth' March, Marmee March Mary Astor as Marmee March and Peter Lawford as Theodore 'Laurie' Laurence.

1933: Little Women, with Katharine Hepburn as Josephine 'Jo' March.

Extra versions appeared around 1917, 1918, 1946,1948, 1950, 1958, 1970, 1979, & 2001. Within 1987 a Japanese animation studio "Nippon Animation" did an anime adaptation titled "Ai no Wakakusa Monogatari".

Within 1998, on a commission from either the Houston Grand Opera, the book was adapted as an opera by composer Mark Adamo.

Inside January 2005, a Broadway musical adapted from a book opened at a Virginia Theatre in New York City with book by Allan Knee, score by Jason Howland and lyrics by Mindi Dickstein.

The Little Women Text
University of Virginia's etext, divided into chapters.

Literature Project: Little Women
Chapter-indexed HTML version.

Little Women
Chapter summaries.

Bibliomania: Little Women
HTML version of the novel.

The Literature Network: Little Women
HTML version of the novel.

Project Gutenberg: Little Women
Etext of the novel.


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