Mr. March is away serving in Afghanistan rather than Antietam. ... “Little Women” is durable, Niederpruem said, “because the story is about nothing and it’s about everything.

Little Women has an episodic quality rather than an overarching narrative arc, but if you squint hard enough, there is a discernible pattern: Mrs. March counsels her daughters on their values and ...

In “Little Women, ” the March sisters’ next-door neighbor, Mr. Lawrence, decides to show the same restraint. Having given Beth March an open invitation to use the piano that his late daughter used to ...

The irony of “Little Women” — in light of the title, which is how Mr. March (Bob Odenkirk), who’s gone off to war and left his wife and kids to fend for themselves, fondly refers to his ...

Alcott’s father, A. Bronson Alcott (1799-1888), is the model for Mr. March in both “Little Women” and “March” (although Brooks has shaved two decades off his age rather than send a ...

A huge part of Little Women's central drama is that Mr. March is away during the Civil War, leaving the ladies to fend for themselves and worry about his well-being.

Little Women: Why it Holds Up Over Time. advertisement. ... March, and on occasion Mr. March, are the guiding lights of the family because they love their daughters and want them to grow.

Little Women. Episode 1. Episode 1 | 53m 2s Video has Closed Captions | CC. With their father away at war, the March sisters come to terms with their new life. With their father away at war, the ...

JEFFREY BROWN: "Little Women," the 19th-century novel by Louisa May Alcott, has been beloved by generations of readers. One of them, Geraldine Brooks, has taken Mr. March, the mostly absent father ...

The enduring classic "Little Women" 07:50 One-hundred-and-fifty years ago, in a house in Concord, Massachusetts, Louisa May Alcott wrote one of the most beloved books in American literature, "I ...

Published in 1868, “Little Women,” which ends with the return from the Civil War of Mr. March, sold out its 2,000-book initial run in days; when 6,000 more were printed, they sold out too.

In the past 90 years, the characters in “Little Women” have been portrayed by a host of movie stars, ... the way Mr. March would write to his family while fighting the Civil War, ...