Little Women; Or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy
Little Women; Or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy
Four sisters with vastly different personalities navigate the joys and heartbreaks of growing up during the Civil War. From artistic ambitions to domestic struggles, the March girls lean on each other to find their unique places in a changing world. It provides a timeless canvas for stories about family bonds and forging one's own path.
Four sisters with vastly different personalities navigate the joys and heartbreaks of growing up during the Civil War. From artistic ambitions to domestic struggles, the March girls lean on each other to find their unique places in a changing world. It provides a timeless canvas for stories about family bonds and forging one's own path.
PART FIRST. CHAPTER I.
"I.PLAYING PILGRIMS."Christmas won't be Christmas without any presents," grumbled Jo, lying on the ru..."
CHAPTER II.
"II.A MERRY CHRISTMAS.Jo was the first to wake in the gray dawn of Christmas morning. No stockings hu..."
CHAPTER III.
"III.THE LAURENCE BOY."Jo! Jo! where are you?" cried Meg, at the foot of the garret stairs."Here!" an..."
CHAPTER IV.
"BURDENS."Oh dear, how hard it does seem to take up our packs and go on," sighed Meg, the morning aft..."
CHAPTER V.
"BEING NEIGHBORLY."What in the world are you going to do now, Jo?" asked Meg, one snowy afternoon, as..."
CHAPTER VI.
"BETH FINDS THE PALACE BEAUTIFUL.The big house did prove a Palace Beautiful, though it took some time..."
CHAPTER VII.
"AMY'S VALLEY OF HUMILIATION."That boy is a perfect Cyclops, isn't he?" said Amy, one day, as Laurie..."
CHAPTER VIII.
"JO MEETS APOLLYON."Girls, where are you going?" asked Amy, coming into their room one Saturday after..."
CHAPTER IX.
"MEG GOES TO VANITY FAIR."I do think it was the most fortunate thing in the world that those children..."
CHAPTER X.
"THE P. C. AND P. O.As spring came on, a new set of amusements became the fashion, and the lengthenin..."
CHAPTER XI.
"EXPERIMENTS."The first of June! The Kings are off to the seashore to-morrow, and I'm free. Three mon..."
CHAPTER XII.
"CAMP LAURENCE.Beth was post-mistress, for, being most at home, she could attend to it regularly, and..."
CHAPTER XIII.
"CASTLES IN THE AIR.Laurie lay luxuriously swinging to and fro in his hammock, one warm September aft..."
CHAPTER XIV.
"SECRETS.Jo was very busy in the garret, for the October days began to grow chilly, and the afternoon..."
CHAPTER XV.
"A TELEGRAM."November is the most disagreeable month in the whole year," said Margaret, standing at t..."
CHAPTER XVI.
"LETTERS.In the cold gray dawn the sisters lit their lamp, and read their chapter with an earnestness..."
CHAPTER XVII.
"LITTLE FAITHFUL.For a week the amount of virtue in the old house would have supplied the neighborhoo..."
CHAPTER XVIII.
"DARK DAYS.Beth did have the fever, and was much sicker than any one but Hannah and the doctor suspec..."
CHAPTER XIX.
"AMY'S WILL.While these things were happening at home, Amy was having hard times at Aunt March's. She..."
CHAPTER XX.
"CONFIDENTIAL.I don't think I have any words in which to tell the meeting of the mother and daughters..."
CHAPTER XXI.
"LAURIE MAKES MISCHIEF, AND JO MAKES PEACE.Jo's face was a study next day, for the secret rather weig..."
CHAPTER XXII.
"PLEASANT MEADOWS.Like sunshine after storm were the peaceful weeks which followed. The invalids impr..."
CHAPTER XXIII.
"AUNT MARCH SETTLES THE QUESTION.Like bees swarming after their queen, mother and daughters hovered a..."
THE SECOND PART. CHAPTER XXIV.
"The Dove-CoteXXIV.GOSSIP.In order that we may start afresh, and go to Meg's wedding with free minds,..."
CHAPTER XXV.
"THE FIRST WEDDING.The June roses over the porch were awake bright and early on that morning, rejoici..."
CHAPTER XXVI.
"ARTISTIC ATTEMPTS.It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, esp..."
CHAPTER XXVII.
"LITERARY LESSONS.Fortune suddenly smiled upon Jo, and dropped a good-luck penny in her path. Not a g..."
CHAPTER XXVIII.
"DOMESTIC EXPERIENCES.Like most other young matrons, Meg began her married life with the determinatio..."
CHAPTER XXIX.
"XXIX.CALLS."Come, Jo, it's time.""For what?""You don't mean to say you have forgotten that you promi..."
CHAPTER XXX.
"CONSEQUENCES.Mrs. Chester's fair was so very elegant and select that it was considered a great honor..."
CHAPTER XXXI.
"XXXI.OUR FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT."London."Dearest People,—"Here I really sit at a front window of the..."
CHAPTER XXXII.
"XXXII.TENDER TROUBLES."Jo, I'm anxious about Beth.""Why, mother, she has seemed unusually well since..."
CHAPTER XXXIII.
"XXXIII.JO'S JOURNAL."New York, November."Dear Marmee and Beth,—"I'm going to write you a regular vol..."
CHAPTER XXXIV.
"XXXIV.A FRIEND.Though very happy in the social atmosphere about her, and very busy with the daily wo..."
CHAPTER XXXV.
"XXXV.HEARTACHE.Whatever his motive might have been, Laurie studied to some purpose that year, for he..."
CHAPTER XXXVI.
"XXXVI.BETH'S SECRET.When Jo came home that spring, she had been struck with the change in Beth. No o..."
CHAPTER XXXVII.
"NEW IMPRESSIONS.At three o'clock in the afternoon, all the fashionable world at Nice may be seen on..."
CHAPTER XXXVIII.
"ON THE SHELF.In France the young girls have a dull time of it till they are married, when "Vive la l..."
CHAPTER XXXIX.
"XXXIX.LAZY LAURENCE.Laurie went to Nice intending to stay a week, and remained a month. He was tired..."
CHAPTER XL.
"THE VALLEY OF THE SHADOW.When the first bitterness was over, the family accepted the inevitable, and..."
CHAPTER XLI.
"XLI.LEARNING TO FORGET.Amy's lecture did Laurie good, though, of course, he did not own it till long..."
CHAPTER XLII.
"XLII.ALL ALONE.It was easy to promise self-abnegation when self was wrapped up in another, and heart..."
CHAPTER XLIII.
"XLIII.SURPRISES.Jo was alone in the twilight, lying on the old sofa, looking at the fire, and thinki..."
CHAPTER XLIV.
"XLIV.MY LORD AND LADY."Please, Madam Mother, could you lend me my wife for half an hour? The luggage..."
CHAPTER XLV.
"XLV.DAISY AND DEMI.I cannot feel that I have done my duty as humble historian of the March family, w..."
XLVI.
"XLVI.UNDER THE UMBRELLA.While Laurie and Amy were taking conjugal strolls over velvet carpets, as th..."
CHAPTER XLVII.
"HARVEST TIME.For a year Jo and her Professor worked and waited, hoped and loved, met occasionally, a..."