For generations,
children around the world have come of age with Louisa May Alcott's
March girls: hardworking eldest sister Meg, headstrong, impulsive Jo,
timid Beth, and precocious Amy. With their father away at war, and their
loving mother Marmee working to support the family, the four sisters
have to rely on one another for support as they endure the hardships of
wartime and poverty. We witness the sisters growing up and figuring out
what role each wants to play in the world, and, along the way, join them
on countless unforgettable adventures.
Readers young and old
will fall in love with this beloved classic, at once a lively portrait
of nineteenth-century family life and a feminist novel about young women
defying society's expectations.
At the dawn of the next
world war, a plane crashes on an uncharted island, stranding a group of
schoolboys. At first, with no adult supervision, their freedom is
something to celebrate; this far from civilization the boys can do
anything they want. Anything. They attempt to forge their own society,
failing, however, in the face of terror, sin and evil. And as order
collapses, as strange howls echo in the night, as terror begins its
reign, the hope of adventure seems as far from reality as the hope of
being rescued. Labeled a parable, an allegory, a myth, a morality tale, a
parody, a political treatise, even a vision of the apocalypse, Lord of
the Flies is perhaps our most memorable novel about “the end of
innocence, the darkness of man’s heart.”
