《小妇人》美国作家路易莎·奥尔科特代表作，本书以家庭生活为描写对象，以家庭成员的感情纠葛为线索，描写了马奇一家的天伦之爱。马奇家的四姐妹中，无论是为了爱情甘于贫困的梅格，还是通过自己奋斗成为作家的乔，以及坦然面对死亡的贝思和以扶弱为己任的艾美，虽然她们的理想和命运都不尽相同，但是她们都具有自强自立的共同特点。着重描写了她们对家庭的眷恋；对爱的忠诚以及对亲情的渴望。本书故事情节简单而真实，感人至深，问世一百多年以来，多次被搬上银幕，并被译成各种文字，成为世界文学宝库中的经典名作。
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Little Women is a novel by American author Louisa May Alcott, which was originally published in two volumes. Alcott wrote the books rapidly over several months at the request of her publisher. The novel follows the lives of four sisters—Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy March—detailing their passage from childhood to womanhood, and is loosely based on the author and her three sisters. It is an outstanding achievement of nineteenth-century American literature, and the first children's novel written in the United States to have become an enduring classic.
The book has been adapted for film twice as silent films, and four times with sound, in 1933, 1949, 1978 and 1994. Four television series were made, including two in Britain in the 1950s and two anime series in Japan in the 1980s. A musical version opened on Broadway in 2005. An American opera version in 1998 has been performed internationally and filmed for broadcast on US television in 2001.
路易莎·M·奥尔科特（1832－1888），美国作家。1832年11月29日出生在宾夕法尼亚州的杰曼镇。路易莎10岁时便已热心于业余戏剧演出，15岁时写出第一部情节剧，21岁开始发表诗歌及小品。1868年，一位出版商建议她写一部关于“女孩子的书”，她便根据孩提的记忆写成《小妇人》。出乎作者意料的是《小妇人》打动了无数美国读者，尤其是女性读者的心弦。之后，路易莎又续写了《小男人》和《乔的男孩子们》，1873年又以小说形式出版了自传著作《经验的故事》。路易莎成名后，继续撰写小说和故事，并投身于妇女选举运动和禁酒运动。美国内战期间她在华盛顿做过军队救护人员，后来，她还担任过一家儿童刊物（Robert Merry's Museum）的编辑。
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