Louisa May Alcott's novel about four sisters growing up during the Civil War is often dismissed as wholesome nostalgia, but its actual concerns are bracingly adult: how women navigate limited options, how ambition gets channeled or crushed, how families negotiate poverty with dignity. Jo March's struggle between her writing and social expectations remains achingly relevant. This is domestic fiction that takes women's interior lives as seriously as any war novel takes battle. This American classic explores sisterhood, female ambition, and coming of age during the Civil War era.
 
 
 
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