When Christmas comes for the four March girls, there is no money for expensive presents and they give away their Christmas breakfast to a poor family. But there are no happier girls in America than Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy. They miss their father, of course, who is away at the Civil War, but they try hard to be good so that he will be proud of his 'little women' when he comes home. This heart-warming story of family life has been popular for more than a hundred years.
Louisa May Alcott nació en Germantown, Pensilvania,
en 1832 y murió en Boston en 1888. De su vasta obra literaria destacan tres clásicos de la literatura: Mujercitas (1868-1869), Hombrecitos (1871) y Los muchachos de Jo (1886). Otras obras de L. M. Alcott, publicadas póstumamente, son Un moderno Mefistófeles, Un susurro en la oscuridad y ésta, La herencia.
