Little Women - Angela Brazil (review date 1922)
Angela Brazil (review date 1922)
SOURCE: "Little Women: An Appreciation," The Bookman, Vol. LXIII, No. 375, December, 1922, pp. 139–40.
[In the following review, Brazil praises Alcott's ability to write convincingly of childhood experiences as an adult.]
To girls one of the most acceptable gift-books of the Christmas season will surely be this new and beautiful edition de luxe of Little Women, by Louisa M. Alcott.
In the days of my own youth I had revelled in the story, despite the bad print and lack of illustrations of a cheap edition, so I confess that when I saw it in this glorious new dress, with the lovely pictures giving such charming portraits of those dearest of old friends and playmates, Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy, I just sat down at once, and started to re-read it with all the rapture of my early teens. There are some girlhood tales which we skim through again, and wonder how our callow taste ever tolerated...
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