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From: The Daily Mail (London, England)
Date: 20031121
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Byline: WENDY HOLDEN

Children's classic: Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

PLENTY of books claim to be so side-splitting that they shouldn't be read in public, but very few carry the opposite warning - that such perusal risks welling eyes, snivels and the occasional complete, sobbing breakdown.

Little Women is just such a volume and any reader venturing between its covers without Kleenex in industrial quantities has only themselves to blame.

As I reread it for the purposes of this review, my sinuses and tearducts had the sort of workout that only a flaming ...

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