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Our father; New fiction.(What happened to the father in "Little Women")(Book Review)

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From: The Economist (US)
Date: 20050326
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LOUISA MAY ALCOTT'S classic "Little Women" begins on a Christmas Eve early in the American civil war, as the improbably angelic March family mourns the absence of their patriarch, a minister with Union troops. The novel closes on the following year's Christmas Day, when John March is joyously reunited with his four lively daughters and patient wife Marmee. Even living at the edges ofthe war, the women have suffered much stoical privation.

What March himself suffered in that trying year Alcott left largely to her reader's imagination--in particular to the imagination of ...

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