by Louisa May Alcott, John Escott · OUP Oxford · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780194791755
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«Little Women» is the adapted edition of Louisa May Alcott's novel by John Escott, published by OUP Oxford in paperback (56 pages, in English).
In nineteenth-century New England, Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy March grow up without their father, who is fighting in the Civil War, and one Christmas they give their breakfast to a poor family. Though they lack luxuries, they are happy and try to behave well; the novel portrays everyday life, small sacrifices and the affection between sisters.
It corresponds to Oxford Bookworms Library Level 4, with 1,400 headwords, 14,920 words and CEFR level B1/B2.
Aimed at intermediate-level English students, especially young people and adults who use graded readers to practise reading comprehension.
Louisa May Alcott was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet best known for writing the novel Little Women (1868) and its sequels Good Wives (1869), Little Men (1871), and Jo's Boys (1886). Raised in New England by her transcendentalist parents, Abigail May and Amos Bronson Alcott, she grew up among many well-known intellectuals of the day, including Margaret Fuller, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry David Thoreau. Encouraged by her family, Alcott began writing from an early age.
