Parts I and II of the American classic in a special hardcover edition with silver foil embossing. New England in the 1860s: The sisters Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy closely stick together because their father is away as a pastor in the American Civil War and the family is not ficially secure. The four very different women live through their youth with everything it offers and expects of them - boys from the neighbourhood and moralizers, theater trips and Sunday school, happiness and suffering. »Little Women« tells the story of the winding paths on which the four young women conquer their place in the world.

• »I'd rather take coffee than compliments just now.« Amy March in Little Women