Publisher, Tantor Media (January 2005)

Little Women is the story of a wife and her four daughters living in genteel poverty in the environs of Boston while the father is away as a chaplain in the Union Army during the Civil War.

So natural are the actions and dialogue of the charming Meg, Jo, Beth & Amy - that even today Little Women is readable without a sense of Victorian stiffness.

This heartwarming story is Louisa May Alcott's masterpiece. She was born in German town Pennsylvania in 1832. Before becoming an author, she was a nurse at the Union hospital in Georgetown during the Civil War. She died in 1888.

Lots Duncan says of Little Women: "It speaks directly to the hearts of people of any generation who know what it's like to be part of a caring family".

"Christmas won't be Christmas without any presents," grumbled Jo, lying on the rug. "It's so dreadful to be poor!" sighed Meg, looking down at her old dress. "I don't think it's fair for some girls to have plenty of pretty things, and other girls nothing at all," added little Amy, with an injured sniff. "We've got Father and Mother, and each other," said Beth contentedly from her corner.

Based on Louisa May Alcott's own Yankee childhood, Little Women is the lively portrait of beloved matriarch Marmee March and her four daughters--domestic Meg, headstrong Jo, sensitive Beth, and artistic Amy. While their father is serving as a chaplain in the Union Army during the Civil War, Marmee is left to raise her daughters alone in New England. Although mired in poverty, the genteel and refined family nonetheless survives through snow and sisterly squabbles, love and laughter, pranks and plays, illnesses and courtships.