Three years on from Little Women, the four March girls have developed into young adults, with their eyes directed towards the future. Louisa May Alcott’s captivating story opens with joyful, bustling preparations for a family wedding. Aided by her mother’s firm but gentle guidance and the harsh lessons which experience brings, Meg struggles towards the goals of blissful marriage and motherhood. Meg embarks on wedded life with the carefree optimism of a new bride, yet all is not plain sailing. Only meek little Beth has no ambition beyond her home comforts and, though her burden is heaviest of all, she too discovers peace at last. Meanwhile, her sister Jo dons the ‘scribbling suit’ and again tries for success in writing, but the young ‘my lady’ Amy discovers greater gifts than art in her travels abroad. Из серии: Penguin Popular Classics
2011. Poignant and comic in turns, Good Wives is the fitting, if unexpected, conclusion to the careers of the merry ‘little women’.