"Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott (Review)

               Little Women Review

Basic Info:

Originally published: 1868

Author: Louisa May Alcott

Followed by: Little Men

Characters: Jo March, Amy March, Mrs. March, Beth March, Meg March

Adaptations: Little Women (1994), Tales of Little Women (1988), more

Genres: Coming-of-age story, Bildungsroman

Little Women is a novel by American author Louisa May Alcott (1832–1888), which was originally published in two volumes in 1868 and 1869. Alcott wrote the books rapidly over several months at the request of her publisher.^[1][2] The novel follows the lives of four sisters—Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy March—detailing their passage from childhood to womanhood, and is loosely based on the author and her three sisters.

Review:

(Take a deep breath, rub your jaw, and start typing)

This book is quite good, obviously open to further improvement, but it's written with true feeling and heart with believable and deep characters we can all somehow relate to, and that's what makes it great. The time which is needed to read the book is on average 6 hours and 30 minutes, so yeah, it's very long; but that doesn't really bother me, and I'm always suprised when people complain about the length of books and movies, because if we haven't even got enough patience to watch a movie or read a book, then what's happened to us?

This is one of those books which is based on a true story not in the sense of some historical happening or something but in the sense that the experiences and feelings are real, and experiences we've all had, such as anger, writing, lust for revenge, love, hate, being anti-social, despair, and so on. The events may not be exactly true (although they're all things which many people grow through, and it was loosely based on Alcott's past life), but the FEELINGS are true, and remain personal without becoming sentimental.

So overall Rating: 8/10