A darkly funny, gothic novel about a lonely graduate student drawn into a clique of rich girls at a New England university.

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ISBN13: 9780241688243
Format: Hardback
Number of Pages: 384
Edition:
Publication Date: 01 Oct 2024
Publisher: Penguin Random House Children's UK
Publication City, Country: United Kingdom
Dimensions (cm): 205(H)x135(L)x33(W)417
Weight (gm): 417

Author Biography

Louisa May Alcott (1832-88) was brought up in Pennsylvania, USA. She turned to writing in order to supplement the family income and had many short stories published in magazines and newspapers. Then, in 1862, during the height of the American Civil War, Louisa went to Georgetown to work as a nurse, but she contracted typhoid. Out of her experiences she wrote Hospital Sketches (1864) which won wide acclaim, followed by an adult novel, Moods. She was reluctant to write a children's book but then realized that in herself and her three sisters she had the perfect models. The result was Little Women (1868) which became the earliest American children's novel to become a classic.

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"The American female myth."
--Madelon Bedell