please give the critical review of the book Little Women
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Little Women has been condemned by critics as being little more than a moral battering ram aimed at nineteenth century adolescent girls, but Louisa May Alcott produced a work much larger in scope and more complex in feeling than such critics recognize. On the surface, the novel comprises a series of episodes depicting the four March girls’ private battles with expectations concerning the moral conduct befitting good Christian young ladies.
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Four sisters: Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy March, are part of a poor but loving family. With their father off to war they have only their mother left to encourage them to be the best version of themselves at all times. As they go through love and loss they truly do learn to become 'little women'.
I found myself, after reading the last line twice over just to check, satisfied yet in want of more. It was a refreshing read that made me care for the sisters and left me wanting to know what led Alcott to write this simple masterpiece. As all well-known books do, it had a fair few morals that, although made the characters seem a bit too perfect to be real, were reasonable and made me want to make up for my faults (of which there are many).