#118 in Classics
Little Women
- 310
- Pages
- about 6 h
- Reading time
- Film 2019 +11
- On screen
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Our view
“Little Women” works best as a sequence of domestic episodes: almost every chapter is a small story about the four March sisters that closes on a lesson. That gives the novel its warmth, though some readers tire of the moralising and find the pace slow. Jo remains the character readers recognise themselves in, even when the era’s expectations of women narrow her path. A comforting read for those who accept its nineteenth-century sermons.
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About the book
Little Women is a coming-of-age novel written by American novelist Louisa May Alcott, originally published in two volumes, in 1868 and 1869. The story follows the lives of the four March sisters—Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy—and details their passage from childhood to womanhood. Loosely based on the lives of the author and her three sisters, it is classified as an autobiographical or semi-autobiographical novel.
Reading order · March Trilogy
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7.97.9 / 10 - Little Men: Life at Plumfield with Jo’s Boys
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7.67.6 / 10
On screen
This book has been adapted for the screen 12 times — from 1917 to 2019.
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Adaptation data: Wikidata · On screen →
Where the score comes from
The sources average 7.9 across 1,729 ratings. With that many, the reader vote carries 92% of the weight and the score stays at 7.9 — the Classics average of 7.7 barely moves it.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 8.1 | 123 | 7% |
| Hardcover | 7.9 | 1.6K | 93% |
Frequently asked
How long is Little Women?
It has 310 pages — longer than 64% of the ranked books in Classics.
In this book
Themes this book shares with others — each leads to the best books on it.
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