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1) March
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Language
English
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Description
From the author of the international bestseller "Year of Wonders" comes a powerful love story set against the catastrophe of the Civil War. From Louisa May Alcott's beloved classic "Little Women," Brooks has taken the character of the absent father, March, and added adult resonance to portray the moral complexity of war and a marriage tested by the demands of extreme idealism.
3) Mujercitas
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Language
Español
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Mujercitas de Louisa May Alcott es un emotivo relato muy femenino con personajes y situaciones memorables. Enamoramientos, aspiraciones intelectuales, complicaciones, vicisitudes en la vida de las jovencitas. La escritora utiliza una fina descripción de caracteres, que muestra el paso de la niñez a la juventud, pone énfasis en el espíritu de la libertad individual, algo no usual para la época. Las March demuestran sus aptitudes sociales tocando...
4) Little women
Author
Language
English
Description
For generations, children around the world have come of age with Louisa May Alcott's March girls: hardworking eldest sister Meg, headstrong, impulsive Jo, timid Beth, and precocious Amy. With their father away at war, and their loving mother Marmee working to support the family, the four sisters have to rely on one another for support as they endure the hardships of wartime and poverty. We witness the sisters growing up and figuring out what role...
5) Little men
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The now-married Jo has opened a school for boys in her late aunt's estate of Plumfield--one where pillow fights are allowed and the students are encouraged to explore their interests. With Jo's children, nieces, and nephews; various boarding students; and an orphaned street musician, life at Plumfield is never dull. But when a trouble-making new boy arrives and the students' mischief gets out of control, Jo's and her family's lives are turned upside...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly color illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy are having a really tough year: Not only is their father overseas with the military and their mother working overtime to make ends meet, but each girl is struggling with her own unique problems. Whether it's school woes, health issues, boy troubles or simply feeling lost, the March sisters all need the same thing: support from each other. By coming together -- and sharing lots of laughs and tears -- these four young women find...
Author
Language
English
Description
In 1861, war is raging in the South, but in Concord, Massachusetts, Margaret March has her own battles to fight. With her husband serving as an army chaplain, the comfort and security of Margaret's four daughters, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy, now rest on her shoulders alone. Money is tight and every month, her husband sends less and less of his salary with no explanation. Worst of all, Margaret harbors the secret that these financial hardships are largely...
8) Little women
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (115 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
This tale centers on the March household: mother "Marmee" and her four daughters; Meg, Amy, Beth and Jo, and chronicles this New England family's joys and tribulations during the Civil War. The girls are committed to "showing father proud," father being a minister gone off to meet the spiritual needs of Yankee soldiers at war. Buoyed by their mother, the girls learn the meaning of giving and sacrifice with a jollity that may be off-putting to jaded...
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
394 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"A reimagining of Little Women set in the spring of 1942, when the United States is suddenly embroiled in the Second World War, this story, told from each March sister's point of view, is one of grief, love, and self-discovery"--
10) Little women
Publisher
BBC Worldwide
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 205 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An enchanting screen adaptation of Louisa May Alcott's original novel. As the Civil War rages on, the four sisters of the March family struggle to grow up without the guiding hand of their loving father.
Author
Series
Library of America volume 157
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
1092 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
12) Little women
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2001]
Edition
Standard version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (115 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the humorous and sentimental fortunes of the four March sisters as they grew into young ladies during the harsh times of the Civil war.
Author
Publisher
Quill Tree Books/Harper Alley
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
263 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Formats
Description
"With the start of eighth grade, Jo March decides it's time to get serious about her writing and joins the school newspaper. But even with her new friend Freddie cheering her on, becoming a hard-hitting journalist is a lot harder than Jo imagined. That's not all that's tough. Jo and her sisters--Meg, Beth, and Amy--are getting used to a new normal at home, with their dad deployed overseas and their mom, a nurse, working overtime. What does it take...
14) Little women
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2003]
Edition
Full screen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (122 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Louisa May Alcott's Civil War story of four sisters who share their loves, their joys, and their sorrows.
16) Little Women
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
Blu-ray & dvd combo edition.
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray disc & 1 videodisc ( 134 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Writer-director Greta Gerwig has crafted a film that draws on both the classic novel and the writings of Louisa May Alcott and unfolds as the author's alter ego, Jo March reflects back and forth on her fictional life. In Gerwig's take, the beloved story of the March sisters, four young women each determined to live life on her own terms, is both timeless and timely.
"[T]his is a film in love with its characters' passions, a rich and effortlessly...
Author
Series
Publisher
Gibbs Smith
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
28 unnumbered pages : colour illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
In Little Women, preschoolers meet Meg, Jo, Beth, Amy, and Marmee, following the March family as they grow and learn. Easy-to-follow, engaging text combined with original quotes and beautiful artwork create a book to be treasured through childhood and beyond.
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