Les Quatre Filles du docteur March

Name: Les Quatre Filles du docteur March
Author: Louisa May Alcott

Titre anglais: Little Women

par Louisa May Alcott · lecture graduée

10 chapitres
33 230 mots
environ 255 min

Meg, Jo, Beth et Amy March grandissent dans une petite ville de Nouvelle-Angleterre pendant que leur père est à la guerre. Manquant d'argent mais riches en amour, les quatre sœurs se disputent, rêvent, se lient d'amitié avec le garçon solitaire du voisin et trouvent lentement leur propre voie dans le monde.

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"Christmas won't be Christmas without any presents," grumbled Jo, lying on the rug.

"It's so dreadful to be poor!" sighed Meg, looking down at her old dress.

"I don't think it's fair for some girls to have plenty of pretty things, and other girls nothing at all," added little Amy, with an injured sniff.

"We've got Father and Mother, and each other," said Beth contentedly from her corner.

For a moment the four young faces brightened in the firelight. Then Jo said quietly, "We haven't got Father, and we shan't have him for a long time." She did not add "perhaps never," but each of them thought it, picturing him far away in the South, where the war was being fought.

Meg explained, in a softer voice, why there were to be no presents that winter. Their mother felt it was wrong to spend money on pleasure while men were suffering in the army. "We can't do much," Meg admitted, "but we can make our little sacrifices, and we ought to make them gladly. I'm afraid I don't, though."