Little Women - World's Best Reading Author:Louisa May Alcott One of the most popular books ever written about childhood charmingly recounts the homelife of four sisters: literary-minded Jo March; Meg, the older sister who marries a young tutor; fashionable and artistic Amy; and gentle, musically inclined Beth, growing up in 19th century America. Their happy family life is disturbed when their father leave... more »s for the Civil War and shaken further when mother must leave to nurse their wounded father back to health.« less