Little Women: Easy to Read Classics

Louisa May Alcott

Feb 2012 · Bring the Classics to Life Book 3 · EDCON Publishing Group

About this ebook

Bring The Classics To Life Series. These novels have been adapted into 10 short chapters that will excite the reluctant reader as well as the enthusiastic one. Let the Classics introduce Kipling, Stevenson, and H.G. Wells. Readers will embrace the notion of Crusoe's lonely reflections, the psychological reactions of a Civil War soldier at Chancellorsville, and the tragedy of the Jacobite Cause in 18th Century Scotland. Knowledge of Classics is a cultural necessity and these will improve fluency, vocabulary and comprehension through a high Interest / low readability format. Each eBookis divided into 10 short high quality illustrated chapters - Was written using McGraw-Hill's Core Vocabulary - Has been measured by the Fry Readability Formula - Defines and uses in context new vocabulary, prior to each chapter.

About the author

Louisa May Alcott was born in Germantown, Pennsylvania on November 29, 1832. She was the second oldest of four sisters. She received most of her early schooling from her father, as he was a teacher. Her story Little Women is about many of her own true experiences. Hard times fell upon her family and Louisa worked many jobs to help her parents. She was a seamstress, a nurse and a schoolteacher, just to name a few. She started to write in hopes of making more money. Little Women is her most well known book. On March 6, 1888, only days after her father had passed away, Louisa May Alcott died.