by Louisa May Alcott, D.K. Swan, Michael West, Shirley Tourret · Pearson Education Limited · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780582541627
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«Little Women» is the abridged version of the classic novel by Louisa May Alcott, retold by D.K. Swan, Michael West and Shirley Tourret, in paperback.
The story follows the four March sisters, who grow up in nineteenth-century New England while their father fights in the Civil War. Between poverty and appearances, they share joys, troubles and learning while waiting for news of him.
It belongs to the Longman Classics collection, Stage 4; it was published in 1988 by Pearson Education Limited, with English text, 74 pages and controlled vocabulary of about 1300 words.
For young readers aged 9 to 12 and pre-intermediate English students, as a graded reader with comprehension questions.
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.
