《小妇人(附光盘)(英文版)》是美国作家路易莎·M·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。本书为英文原版,同时随书附赠配套朗读CD,让读者在阅读精彩故事的同时,亦能提升英文阅读水平。
路易莎·M·奥尔科特编著的《小妇人(附光盘)(英文版)》讲述了: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.
PART I
CHAPTER 1 PLAYING PILGRIMS
CHAPTER 2 A MERRY CHRISTMAS
CHAPTER 3 THE LAURENCE BOY
CHAPTER 4 BURDENS
CHAPTER 5 BEING NEIGHBORLY
CHAPTER 6 BETH FINDS THE PALACE BEAUTIFUL
CHAPTER 7 AMY’S VALLEY OF HUMILIATION
CHAPTER 8 JO MEETS APOLLYON
CHAPTER 9 MEG GOES TO VANITY FAIR
CHAPTER 10 THE P.C. AND P.O.
CHAPTER 11 EXPERIMENTS
CHAPTER 12 CAMP LAURENCE
CHAPTER 13 CASTLES IN THE AIR
CHAPTER 14 SECRETS
CHAPTER 15 A TELEGRAM
CHAPTER 16 LETTERS
CHAPTER 17 LITTLE FAITHFUL
CHAPTER 18 DARK DAYS
CHAPTER 19 AMY’S WILL
CHAPTER 20 CONFIDENTIAL
CHAPTER 21 LAURIE MAKES MISCHIEF, AND JO MAKES PEACE
CHAPTER 22 PLEASANT MEADOWS
CHAPTER 23 AUNT MARCH SETTLES THE QUESTION
PART II
CHAPTER 24 GOSSIP
CHAPTER 25 THE FIRST WEDDING
CHAPTER 26 ARTISTIC ATTEMPTS
CHAPTER 27 LITERARY LESSONS
CHAPTER 28 DOMESTIC EXPERIENCES
CHAPTER 29 CALLS
CHAPTER 30 CONSEQUENCES
CHAPTER 31 OUR FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT
CHAPTER 32 TENDER TROUBLES
CHAPTER 33 JO’S JOURNAL
CHAPTER 34 FRIEND
CHAPTER 35 HEARTACHE
CHAPTER 36 BETH’S SECRET
CHAPTER 37 NEW IMPRESSIONS
CHAPTER 38 ON THE SHELF
CHAPTER 39 LAZY LAURENCE
CHAPTER 40 THE VALLEY OF THE SHADOW
CHAPTER 41 LEARNING TO FORGET
CHAPTER 42 ALL ALONE
CHAPTER 43 SURPRISES
CHAPTER 44 MY LORD AND LADY 2
CHAPTER 45 DAISY AND DEMI
CHAPTER 46 UNDER THE UMBRELLA
CHAPTER 47 HARVEST TIME