Obitelj March
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9789532204445
Publish date: 2007
Publisher: Algoritam
Pages no: 259
Edition language: Croatian
Category:
Novels,
Literature,
Book Club,
Adult Fiction,
American,
Historical Fiction,
Literary Fiction,
Adult,
War,
Military History,
Civil War
Historical fiction with a powerful grounding in both the fictive world of Louisa May Alcott ("Little Women") as well as the real history of the American Civil War. A pitiable and complicated main character (March) leaves his family to fight in the war as a committed abolitionist. As the father of Jo...
This is more like it. When I read Little Women, I couldn't help but wonder where the real hardships of war or poverty were. The author told her readers that the family was poor, but they never seemed effected by it. The father was at war, but there was no serious concern for the thousands of men f...
As I read March, I repeatedly wondered why I wasn't enjoying this novel more. Initially, I thought my lack of adoration was the result of historical-fiction burnout. March feels and sounds like so many other novels I've read. And this may have been part of my disinterest. But I think a larger part o...
Based on Louisa May Alcott's beloved classic Little Women, Geraldine Brooks brings us a parallel account of Peter March, the father of Meg, Jo Beth and Amy. Most of the story of Little Women has their father as absent while off to war. This fills in the blanks as to his whereabouts and adds a bit m...
This is the second book by Geraldine Brooks that I've read, and I love her voice and writing style. This book is based on the March family from Little Women, told from both Mr. March's point of view, as well as Marmee's. I'll preface this by saying that I tend to have a very hard time with war sto...