Little Women is the delightful story of the four March girls and their approach towards womanhood. Meg, the eldest and most beautiful, shrugs off her vanity and social ambition, discovering fulfilment in romantic love. Boyish Jo on the other hand, with her contempt of all 'lovering', turns impetuously towards writing for solace. Gentle Beth rejects worldly interests, preferring to devote her life to her family, to the you of music and to timidly aiding all who suffer in life. Amy, the youngest and most imperfect of the March girls, continually tries to overcome her selfishness and girlish pretensions, though she has a hard task before her. The progress of these four 'little women' is narrated along the lines of Bunyan's pilgrim, and we are shown how - encountering struggles and learning important lessons along the way - each one attains her own Celestial City.
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.
