Good Wives: Beginner (Macmillan Readers)

by Louisa M. Alcott

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"1866 -- Massachusetts, North America. The March sisters - Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy - have grown up. They are young women now. Each sister has a different plan for her future. Meg is going to marry John Brooke. She wants to have children. Jo wants an exciting life and she wants to be a famous writer. Amy wants to be a painter and she wants to travel to Europe. Beth wants to stay at home. She wants to have a happy, quiet life. And what about the girls' best friend, Laurie? What will his future show more be?" -- cover. show less

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This book is a story about four sisters . Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy March.
At first , they lead a happy life together , but then they lived apart.
Meg married a clever young man.
Amy went to and stay London.
Jo went to NewYork.
Beth stayed home.
And they spent different life.

I like Jo very much. She was unsociable, but very kind and loved her family.
She was often compared with Amy.
Amy is very pretty girl. Everyone loved her. She was very kind girl , too.
But I don't like her because she was so innocent that she couldn't understand Jo's feeling.

When Amy became happy, I thought Amy's happiness is complex for Jo.
If I had been Jo, I wouldn't have been able to celebrate her.
But Jo was pleased with Amy's happiness regardless of her loneliness.
I was show more impressed with her tenderness. show less
This book show four example of lady's life. March sisters, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy, have different personalities and try to be happy.
I think I'm like Jo. She loving reading and writing story and play. But she is not outgoing. So people said Jo is not interesting at all. I can understand her feeling!
March sisters are very nice girls. I like them. But, especially, I want Jo to be happy because she is my favorite girl.
This book continued from Little Women.
March sisters each has grown up to be a respectable women.
Meg were having a good time with her husband.
Jo worked hard to be a writer.
Beth sent quiet life at home.
Amy went to Paris. She wanted to be a painter.
A sad incident happened in this book's the end.
But March sisters got over the incident.

After reading this book, I was raised my spirits bcause my favorite character Jo became happy.
I thought putting March sisters letter is useful to imagine March sisters what were.
This is heart warming story. Jo is the main character of this. She has three sisters. Their lives were different from one another's. But they always related and helped each other. That was very impressed me. So please read it!
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I like this series. four sisters grew older. they are still good sisters. they are all happy. they experienced lots of things.
This book is a sequel to "Little Woman".
The story was unexpected development.
I was surprised many times.

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Louisa May Alcott was born in Germantown, Pennsylvania, in 1832. Two years later, she moved with her family to Boston and in 1840 to Concord, which was to remain her family home for the rest of her life. Her father, Bronson Alcott, was a transcendentalist and friend of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau. Alcott early realized that her show more father could not be counted on as sole support of his family, and so she sacrificed much of her own pleasure to earn money by sewing, teaching, and churning out potboilers. Her reputation was established with Hospital Sketches (1863), which was an account of her work as a volunteer nurse in Washington, D.C. Alcott's first works were written for children, including her best-known Little Women (1868--69) and Little Men: Life at Plumfield with Jo's Boys (1871). Moods (1864), a "passionate conflict," was written for adults. Alcott's writing eventually became the family's main source of income. Throughout her life, Alcott continued to produce highly popular and idealistic literature for children. An Old-Fashioned Girl (1870), Eight Cousins (1875), Rose in Bloom (1876), Under the Lilacs (1878), and Jack and Jill (1881) enjoyed wide popularity. At the same time, her adult fiction, such as the autobiographical novel Work: A Story of Experience (1873) and A Modern Mephistopheles (1877), a story based on the Faust legend, shows her deeper concern with such social issues as education, prison reform, and women's suffrage. She realistically depicts the problems of adolescents and working women, the difficulties of relationships between men and women, and the values of the single woman's life. (Bowker Author Biography) show less

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428.6LanguageEnglish & Old English languagesStandard English usage (Prescriptive linguistics)Readers
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PE1126 .A4 .C65Language and LiteratureEnglish languageEnglishModern English

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