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Elaine Showalter is the author of the groundbreaking A Literature of Their Own and editor of Little Women for Penguin Classics.","products":[{"product_id":"little-women-hardcover","title":"Little Women - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA gorgeous edition of a classic tale to share with the next generation, \u003ci\u003eLittle Women \u003c\/i\u003eis a coming-of-age story of virtue and true love in nineteenth-century America.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA true classic, \u003ci\u003eLittle Women\u003c\/i\u003e follows the lives of Jo, Meg, Beth, and Amy March, four spirited sisters living in Civil War-era America. 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