A beautiful new Deluxe Edition of Alcott’s beloved novel, with a foreword by National Book Award-winning author and musician Patti Smith. Nominated as one of America’s most-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read.
Little Women is recognized as one of the best-loved classic children’s stories, transcending the boundaries of time and age, making it as popular with adults as it is with young readers. The beloved story of the March girls is a classic American feminist novel, reflecting the tension between cultural obligation and artistic and personal freedom. But which of the four March sisters to love best? For every reader must have their favorite. Independent, tomboyish Jo; delicate, loving Beth; pretty, kind Meg; or precocious and artistic Amy, the baby of the family? The charming story of these four “little women” and their wise and patient mother Marmee enduring hardships and enjoying adventures in Civil War New England was an instant success when first published in 1868 and has been adored for generations.
Louisa May Alcott was born in Germantown, Pennsylvania, in 1832, the second of four daughters of Abigail May Alcott and Bronson Alcott, the prominent Transcendentalist thinker and social reformer. Raised in Concord, Massachusetts, and educated by her father, Alcott early on came under the influence of the great men of his circle: Emerson, Hawthorne, the preacher Theodore Parker, and Thoreau. From her youth, Louisa worked at various tasks to help support her family: sewing, teaching, domestic service, and writing. In 1862, she volunteered to serve as an army nurse in a Union hospital during the Civil War— an experience that provided her material for her first successful book, Hospital Sketches (1863). Between 1863 and 1869, she published several anonymous and pseudonymous Gothic romances and lurid thrillers. But fame came with the publication of her Little Women (1868– 69), a novel based on the childhood adventures of the four Alcott sisters, which received immense popular acclaim and brought her financial security as well as the conviction to continue her career as a writer. In the wake of Little Women’s popularity, she brought out An Old- Fashioned Girl (1870), Little Men(1871), Eight Cousins (1875), Rose in Bloom (1876), Jo’s Boys (1886), and other books for children, as well as two adult novels, Moods (1864) and Work (1873). An active participant in the women’s suffrage and temperance movements during the last decade of her life, Alcott died in Boston in 1888, on the day her father was buried.
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我得说,这本书的语言风格简直是一场文字的盛宴,充满了维多利亚时代特有的那种优雅和韵律感。每一个句子都仿佛经过了精心的打磨,即便是描述最寻常的场景,也能被赋予一种近乎诗意的光泽。我尤其喜欢作者如何运用细腻的比喻和拟人手法来描绘人物的心境,那种色彩感和画面感极强,让人仿佛能闻到壁炉里木柴燃烧的味道,感受到房间里温暖的灯光。然而,这种古典的美感也带来了一定的阅读挑战,有些长句需要我放慢速度,细细品味其结构和深层含义,这倒也成了一种沉浸式的体验。它要求读者放下现代阅读的急躁,用一种更具仪式感的心态去对待文字。它成功地构建了一个既遥远又亲切的过去,让我们得以窥见那个时代人们的精神图景,以及他们对道德、责任的坚守。
评分说实话,初读时我曾有些不耐烦,觉得情节推进得过于缓慢,冲突似乎总是在酝酿,却又很快被某种家庭的和睦气氛所消解。但这或许正是其高明之处。它并非依赖于戏剧性的情节爆炸来吸引人,而是通过一种近乎手术刀般的精准,剖析了人与人之间关系网的复杂性。每一个角色,即便是配角,都有其鲜明的个性和存在的意义,他们之间的互动充满了张力——有爱慕、有嫉妒、有不理解,但最终都导向一种相互扶持的结局。我特别关注了其中关于“奉献”这一主题的探讨,它揭示了真正的无私并非一味的牺牲,而是在理解自我价值的基础上做出的选择。这种对人性的深度挖掘,使得这本书超越了一般的家庭小说范畴,具有了更深刻的社会学意义。
评分如果要用一个词来概括这次阅读体验,我会选择“温暖的回归”。它不像那些充斥着快节奏和高概念的作品,它更像是一杯陈年的热可可,需要你静下心来,慢慢啜饮。它构建的世界是如此的井井有条,充满了秩序感和道德上的明确性,这在当今这个充满不确定性的时代,提供了一种难得的心灵栖息地。我发现自己不自觉地将书中的价值观投射到现实生活中的人际关系上,思考如何能更宽容、更理解身边的人。那种对家庭纽带的强调,对精神财富的推崇,在喧嚣的物质世界中,犹如一盏定海神针,提醒着我们生命中真正值得珍视的是什么。读完后,我感觉自己像是进行了一次精神上的深度清洁。
评分这本书的魅力在于它的“真实性”,尽管故事设定在过去,但其中蕴含的情感内核却是永恒的。我特别被其中关于“成长疼痛”的描写所触动。那些年轻的心灵,面对梦想的残酷性、面对友谊的考验、面对爱情的朦胧与迷茫,所展现出的脆弱与坚韧交织的状态,让人感同身受。它没有将主角塑造成完美无瑕的圣人,而是坦诚地展现了她们的虚荣、冲动乃至一时的软弱。正是这些瑕疵,让她们显得如此鲜活、如此立体。每一次跌倒后的爬起,每一次对错误的修正,都像是为读者提供了一份自我完善的指南。这种坦诚,比任何华丽的辞藻都要打动人心。
评分这本书的叙事节奏简直像是夏日午后慵懒的微风,不急不躁,却又将人物细腻的情感波动描摹得淋漓尽致。作者在构建世界观时,并没有急于抛出宏大的冲突,而是将焦点凝聚在日常生活的琐碎与美好之上。我尤其欣赏它对女性角色内心世界的刻画,那种在理想与现实、自我实现与家庭责任之间的拉扯与权衡,读来让人深有共鸣。看着她们从青涩走向成熟,经历那些小小的挫折与重大的抉择,仿佛我自己的青春期也在字里行间被重新审视了一遍。那种对温情、对美、对精神富足的追求,在那个特定的历史背景下显得尤为珍贵。阅读的过程中,我常常会停下来,反复咀嚼那些富有哲理的对话,它们并非空洞的说教,而是饱含着生活智慧的结晶。整本书读完,留下的不是故事的结局,而是一种对美好生活方式的向往和深深的慰藉。这种温柔而坚定的力量,是很多当代作品所缺失的。
评分我跟Jane Smiley缘分奇特,她的小说没看过,倒先看她写的门罗与小妇人导言了。导言没有太多新鲜的干货,无可避免提及Laurie和Bhaer的比较,提到后者是前者的相反面这点倒有点意思。只是后来Bhaer和Jo开设学校,Jo如他所愿不再写作,让我倍感惋惜,却算在另一层面上实现了路易莎父亲的乌托邦之梦。导言还提到路易莎在健康状况恶化了八到十年之后,于父亲死后三天后去世——除了可能患有胃癌之外,她在1862年接受了甘汞(氯化汞)作为伤寒的治疗药物,并在余生中承受着它的不良影响。但即便这样,她仍两度前往欧洲,看看这个世界,以及收养过世姐妹的孩子,养活整个家庭。这套手绣版如果真要收藏,买英文版即可,中文版翻译实在味同嚼蜡。
评分我跟Jane Smiley缘分奇特,她的小说没看过,倒先看她写的门罗与小妇人导言了。导言没有太多新鲜的干货,无可避免提及Laurie和Bhaer的比较,提到后者是前者的相反面这点倒有点意思。只是后来Bhaer和Jo开设学校,Jo如他所愿不再写作,让我倍感惋惜,却算在另一层面上实现了路易莎父亲的乌托邦之梦。导言还提到路易莎在健康状况恶化了八到十年之后,于父亲死后三天后去世——除了可能患有胃癌之外,她在1862年接受了甘汞(氯化汞)作为伤寒的治疗药物,并在余生中承受着它的不良影响。但即便这样,她仍两度前往欧洲,看看这个世界,以及收养过世姐妹的孩子,养活整个家庭。这套手绣版如果真要收藏,买英文版即可,中文版翻译实在味同嚼蜡。
评分23 days,l love Jo,she seemed to live in a happy world of her own,only venturing out to meet the few whom she trusted and loved.
评分在broadway的书店看到封面就觉得好美啊~~一下子就买了。。。。现在再重温一遍。。。
评分圣诞节的早晨慢慢读完了《小妇人》,太喜欢这版的封面了,虽然我买的不是这本。
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