The Complete Little Women: Little Women, Good Wives, Little Men, Jo's Boys (Unab

<p>"My favorite literary heroine is Jo March. It is hard to overstate what she meant to a small, plain girl called Jo, who had a hot temper and a burning ambition to be a writer." - J. K. Rowling</p><p>"I read Little Women a thousand times. Ten thousand. I am no longer incognito, not even myself. I am Jo in her 'vortex'-Cynthia Ozick</p><p>"Jo has given generations of readers like ... me permission to try to become who we wished. She has helped us to recognize - and to live with, knowing we're not alone - the conflict between the writer's need for solitude and self-absorption and the yearning for the warmth of love." - Gail Mazur</p><p>Simone de Beauvoir saw in Jo March "a glimpse of my future self ... I identified myself passionately with Jo, the intellectual. Brusque and bony, Jo clambered up into trees when she wanted to read; she was much more tomboyish and daring than I was, but I shared her horror of sewing and housekeeping and her love of books."</p><p>"Reading this novel gave me an exalted sense of myself. It helped me to identify with that young girl and to find comfort in myself when I read it. I was able to tell myself that I too was like her, and therefore it did not matter if society was cruel, because I too would be superior and find my place."</p><p><strong>The Complete Little Women </strong>contains the four novels <em>Little Women, Good Wives, Little Men, </em>and <em>Jo's Boys</em>, as well as 43 original illustrations.</p><p>Louisa May Alcott ended <strong