美国内战期间,马奇先生远赴战场做了随军牧师,四个女儿和母亲在家里过着清苦却坚强乐观的生活。她们虽贫穷却乐意帮助比她们更需要帮助的邻居赫梅尔一家。她们有也虚荣心,希望得到漂亮的衣服,吃到可口的食物,让上公主一样的生活。尽管充满幻想,她们的现实环境中依靠自己的努力来面对生活的各种艰难困苦。大女儿梅格生性爱美,对恋爱充满憧憬;二女儿乔是个“男仔头”,独立自主,矢志成为作家;三女儿贝思则是传统乖乖女,柔弱而惹人怜爱;小女儿艾美则钟爱绘画。故事追随这四位女性由女孩成长为小女人的岁月,讲述了她们不羁的爱情经历及她们各自追寻不同理想与归宿的过程。 英文简介With their father gone off to war, the four girls of the March family stay with their mother. The five of them become very worried when they learn that Mr. March is very ill. Mr. March soon gets better. His sudden return on Christmas day is a really nice surprise to the March family. The family can reunite in the end
Little Women is one of the best loved books of all time. Lovely Meg, talented Jo, frail Beth, spoiled Amy: these are hard lessons of poverty and of growing up in New England during the Civil War. Through their dreams, plays, pranks, letters, illnesses, and courtships, women of all ages have become a part of this remarkable family and have felt the deep sadness when Meg leaves the circle of sisters to be married at the end of Part I. Part II, chronicles Meg's joys and mishaps as a young wife and mother, Jo's struggle to become a writer, Beth's tragedy, and Amy's artistic pursuits and unexpected romance. Based on Louise May Alcott's childhood, this lively portrait of nineteenth-century family life possesses a lasting vitality that has endeared it to generations of readers.