Volume 42, Number 4 · March 2, 1995
She Had It All
By Alison Lurie
Little Women
A film directed by Gillian Armstrong
Little Women, or Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy Holt, Knopf, Little, Brown, Macmillan, Oxford University Press, Penguin, Puffin, Random House, Scholastic, Simon and, Schuster, and Viking Penguin
by Louisa May Alcott
Editions available from many publishers, including Bantam , Dell,
Little Women
by Laurie Lawlor, based on the screenplay by Robin Swicord, from the novel by Lousia May Alcott
Pocket Books/a Minstrel book, 133 pp., $3.99 (paper)
A hundred and twenty-six years after its publication, Louisa May Alcott's Little Women is a smash hit again. The new film version is setting records (mainly, as one might expect, among women of various sizes); the book is doing well. The new paperback 'novelization' of the film, which is even briefer and more banal than one might expect, has already sold nearly 300,000 copies. And at Orchard House, the Alcott homestead in Concord, Massachusetts, mobs of tourists have created what are described as chaotic conditions.
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