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Little Women

Louisa May Alcott

NovelAmerican 1868 186k words

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Contents

1Chapter 1 2Chapter 2 3Chapter 3 4Chapter 4 5Chapter 5 6Chapter 6 7Chapter 7 8Chapter 8 9Chapter 9 10Chapter 10 11Chapter 11 12Chapter 12 13Chapter 13 14Chapter 14 15Chapter 15 16Chapter 16 17Chapter 17 18Chapter 18 19Chapter 19 20Chapter 20 21Chapter 21 22Chapter 22 23Chapter 23 24Chapter 24 25Chapter 25 26Chapter 26 27Chapter 27 28Chapter 28 29Chapter 29 30Chapter 30 31Chapter 31 32Chapter 32 33Chapter 33 34Chapter 34 35Chapter 35 36Chapter 36 37Chapter 37 38Chapter 38 39Chapter 39 40Chapter 40 41Chapter 41 42Chapter 42 43Chapter 43 44Chapter 44 45Chapter 45 46Chapter 46 47Chapter 47

Why it is here

A domestic novel that became a global childhood rite of passage; over a million ratings and climbing.

Readership record

Global readership rank#10 of 100

Readership score68.9 / 100

Goodreads ratings1,314,293

Average rating4.04 / 5

Gutenberg 30-day rank#44

Gutenberg downloads78,787

First published1868

FormNovel

OriginAmerican

Length186k words

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No syllabus list matched — ranked on readership volume alone.

Lists used: NEH 1984 core reading list, a 1,000-voter US school-reading survey, and a consolidated current-curriculum survey.

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