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Louisa May Alcott

Born

in Germantown, Pennsylvania, The United States

November 29, 1832

Died

March 06, 1888

Website

http://www.louisamayalcott.org

Genre

Literature & Fiction, Historical Fiction, Mystery & Thrillers

Influences

Amos Bronson Alcott, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Johann ...more

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Louisa May Alcott was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet best known for writing the novel Little Women (1868) and its sequels Good Wives (1869), Little Men (1871) and Jo's Boys (1886). Raised in New England by her transcendentalist parents, Abigail May Alcott and Amos Bronson Alcott, she grew up among many well-known intellectuals of the day, including Margaret Fuller, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry David Thoreau, and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
Alcott's family suffered from financial difficulties, and while she worked to help support the family from an early age, she also sought an outlet in writing. She began to receive critical success for her writing in the 1860s. Early in her career, she sometimes ...more

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Louisa May Alcott’s books

Average rating: 4.13 · 2,665,219 ratings · 80,713 reviews · 3,019 distinct works • Similar authors

	Little Women 4.16 avg rating — 2,280,185 ratings — published 1868 — 5632 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Little Men (Little Women, #2) 3.88 avg rating — 64,023 ratings — published 1871 — 2258 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Good Wives 3.97 avg rating — 43,842 ratings — published 1869 — 507 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Małe kobietki (Małe kobietki, #1, Część 1) by Louisa May Alcott, Anna Bańkowska (Translator) 4.03 avg rating — 40,583 ratings — published 1869 — 605 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Eight Cousins (Eight Cousins, #1) 4.02 avg rating — 38,195 ratings — published 1874 — 2499 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Jo's Boys (Little Women, #3) 3.83 avg rating — 37,385 ratings — published 1886 — 1094 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Rose in Bloom (Eight Cousins, #2) 4.04 avg rating — 23,472 ratings — published 1876 — 817 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	An Old-Fashioned Girl 4.09 avg rating — 20,737 ratings — published 1870 — 1298 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Little Women / Little Men / Jo's Boys by Louisa May Alcott, Elaine Showalter (Editor) 4.36 avg rating — 7,357 ratings — published 1868 — 104 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mujercitas (Mujercitas, #1) 4.16 avg rating — 6,653 ratings — published 1868 — 29 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Series by Louisa May Alcott

Little Women (4 books)
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Eight Cousins (2 books)
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4.03 avg rating — 61,722 ratings

Aunt Jo's Scrap Bag (6 books)
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3.56 avg rating — 869 ratings

Lulu's Library (3 books)
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3.70 avg rating — 139 ratings

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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Ann Jacobs 1861, 176 pages

76 votes, 27.9%

The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne 1865, 723 pages

58 votes, 21.3%

Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy 1899, 562 pages

45 votes, 16.5%

Cousin Henry by Anthony Trollope 1879, 336 pages

29 votes, 10.7%

The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner by James Hogg 1824, 272 pages

24 votes, 8.8%

A Long Fatal Love Chase by Louisa May Alcott 1866, 356 pages

24 votes, 8.8%

Niels Lyhne by Jens Peter Jacobsen 1880, 152 pages

16 votes, 5.9%

272 total votes

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