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ISBN-10: 0143106651
ISBN-13: 9780143106654
Publisher: Penguin Group
Publish Date: 04/24/2012
Dimensions: 8.37" L, 5.65" W, 1.39" H

Little Women: 150th-Anniversary Annotated Edition (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

Foreword by: Patti Smith
Editor: Anne Boyd Rioux
Introduction by: Anne Boyd Rioux
Notes by: Anne Boyd Rioux

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Price: $17.00

Overview

A beautiful new Deluxe Edition of Alcott’s beloved novel, with a foreword by National Book Award-winning author and musician Patti Smith. Nominated as one of America’s most-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read.

Little Women is recognized as one of the best-loved classic children’s stories, transcending the boundaries of time and age, making it as popular with adults as it is with young readers. The beloved story of the March girls is a classic American feminist novel, reflecting the tension between cultural obligation and artistic and personal freedom. But which of the four March sisters to love best? For every reader must have their favorite. Independent, tomboyish Jo; delicate, loving Beth; pretty, kind Meg; or precocious and artistic Amy, the baby of the family? The charming story of these four “little women” and their wise and patient mother Marmee enduring hardships and enjoying adventures in Civil War New England was an instant success when first published in 1868 and has been adored for generations.

For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

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"Perhaps no other book provided a greater guide, as I set out on my youthful path, than Louisa May Alcott's most beloved novel, Little Women."
–From the Foreword by Patti Smith

"I have always gravitated towards the cozy book, and nothing is cozier than Little Women. It was one of the books that fostered my love of America, very early on, and showed me what makes a great character, particularly in headstrong Jo."
–Jane Green

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Details

ISBN-10: 0143106651
ISBN-13: 9780143106654
Publisher: Penguin Group
Publish Date: 04/24/2012
Dimensions: 8.37" L, 5.65" W, 1.39" H
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