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"Little Women" has delighted and instructed readers for generations. For many, it is a favorite book first encountered in childhood or adolescence. Championed by Gertrude Stein, Simone de Beauvoir, Theodore Roosevelt, and J. K. Rowling, it is however much more than the "girls' book" intended by Louisa May Alcott's first publisher. In this richly annotated, illustrated edition, Daniel Shealy illuminates the novel's deep engagement with issues such as social equality, reform movements, the Civil W...
"Little Women" has delighted and instructed readers for generations. For many, it is a favorite book first encountered in childhood or adolescence. Championed by Gertrude Stein, Simone de Beauvoir, Theodore Roosevelt, and J. K. Rowling, it is however much more than the "girls' book" intended by Louisa May Alcott's first publisher. In this richly annotated, illustrated edition, Daniel Shealy illuminates the novel's deep engagement with issues such as social equality, reform movements, the Civil War, friendship, love, loss, and of course the passage into adulthood. The editor provides running commentary on biographical contexts (Did Alcott, like Jo, have a "mood pillow"?), social and historical contexts (When may a lady properly decline a gentleman's invitation to dance?), literary allusions (Who is Mrs. Malaprop?), and words likely to cause difficulty to modern readers (What is a velvet snood? A pickled lime?). With Shealy as a guide, we appreciate anew the confusions and difficulties that beset the March sisters as they overcome their burdens and journey toward maturity and adulthood: beautiful, domestic-minded Meg, doomed and forever childlike Beth, selfish Amy, and irrepressible Jo. This edition examines the novel's central question: How does one grow up well? "Little Women: An Annotated Edition" offers something for everyone. It will delight both new and returning readers, young and old, male and female alike, who will want to own and treasure this beautiful edition full of color illustrations and photographs. "An exciting boon to the countless readers and scholars of Alcott's beloved novel, Daniel Shealy's excellent 'Little Women: An Annotated Edition' provides the biographical, cultural and even linguistic context of that novel's making while it refreshes and enriches our experience of its enduring power" - Brenda Wineapple, author of "White Heat: The Friendship of Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson" Книга «Little Women» автора Луиза Мэй Олкотт оценена посетителями КнигоГид, и её читательский рейтинг составил 8.4 из 10.
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- Серия: Oxford Bookworms Library
- ISBN (EAN): 978-0-674-05971-9
- Языки: Русский
- Возрастное ограничение: 6
- Год написания: 2013
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