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150th anniversary of the classic that has inspired generations of women The world-famous novel that tells the adventures of the March sisters, in an unabridged and illustrated edition.Little Women, the famous work by Louisa May Alcott, returns to all bookstores, based on the c...
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150th anniversary of the classic that has inspired generations of women The world-famous novel that tells the adventures of the March sisters, in an unabridged and illustrated edition. Little Women, the famous work by Louisa May Alcott, returns to all bookstores, based on the complete text of the first edition of 1868, with the addition of many paragraphs that were suppressed in later versions. The novel tells the story of the March sisters, four young women who lived in a New England town while the Civil War raged throughout America. Almost one hundred and fifty years have passed since that distant 1868, but the complicity of Meg, Beth, Amy and Jo with other women has not died. Moreover, authors of the stature of Simone de Beauvoir, Joyce Carol Oates and Patti Smith have been enthusiastic admirers of these Little Women who in their gestures and words summarize the spirit of an era and can still give us beautiful hours of reading today. On this occasion the book offers more than just reading, as Rikka Sormunen's illustrations turn the book into an authentic pleasure for the senses. "I found comfort in books. Curiously, it was Louisa May Alcott with Little Women who provided me with a positive perspective on my destiny as a woman." Reviews: "Until I read it, I was not aware that the novels I liked so much had an author, and that author could be a girl. I remember that then we lived in Palma de Mallorca. I was nine years old. Jo March wrote stories and I also wanted to do it. That's when it all began." "Little Women is in the genealogy that tries to build an epic of the intimate. [...] Literature not only represents reality, it also constructs it, and that is one of the reasons why it would be good to reread Little Women with a critical sense: we would be rereading ourselves." "A wonderful opportunity to travel to this memorable 19th-century home where, despite the pain, there is always a piece of warm cake and a friendly shoulder to cry your sorrows on." "A beautiful book worthy of the most vivid memory of a nostalgic reader, and attractive enough to retain a generation of new readers who have not approached the title before." "An inspiring classic for restless teenagers [...], fiercely current." "Meg, Jo, Beth, Amy... The names of the heroines of Little Women have suffered the same fate as the Beatles. John, Paul, Ringo, George... They are still there because they are already part of what we were and are." "The life lessons that the four sisters in this book learn still seem to me, so many years after having read it for the first time, the best portrait of what it means to grow up." "After reading Little Women it was impossible not to want to be a writer, read aloud, sell your hair and donate the money to a good cause." "If you would allow me, Mrs. March, I would like to be another sister, the fifth little woman." "You have to read Little Women at least twice in life: when young, and when older." "I still want to be Jo." "These girls are so real that, when my hair was cut, the only thing that comforted me was thinking that I was like Jo. That's what universal stories have, they get into your home." "Daughter... I always told you that wanting to be Jo was a bad business." "Little Women: the first time one feels belonging, gender, identity." "Little Women was the reading that awakened in me the nostalgia for a childhood I had not lived." "When I read Little Women I said to myself: we have it difficult, but how lucky I am to be a woman." |
Editorial: LUMEN Fecha de publicación: Páginas: 360 Empastado: Tapa Dura Idioma: Español |
