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When I was Little
When I was little, I could hardly do anything.But now I can do lots of things, like braid my own hair, paint my toenails bubble-gum pink, and go to nursery school.I'm not a baby anymore.

I'm me!

In her first book for children, Jamie Lee Curtis captures a little girl's simple, childlike celebration of herself, as she looks back on her childhood from the lofty height of four and a half years.

The artwork is wonderful, colorful and just fun.A Four-year-olds Memoir of Her Youth is a spirited view of growing up. ... Read more

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Starring: Jamie Lee Curtis, JoBeth Williams, Tony Roberts, Caroline Aaron, Jay Paulson, Kala Savage, John Vickery, James WarwickThis delightful Broadway hit chronicles three Jewish sisters from Brooklyn as they gather in London to celebrate a birthday. Wasserstein's three sisters include a brilliant banker and single mother who has given up on romance, a suburban housewife who moonlights as a talk-show host and a travel writer who still wants to write her serious book. ... Read more

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The Sisters Rosensweig-great script
I was looking for a good audition piece for a woman over 50, and my acting coach suggested this script. Not only did I find some excellent pieces, I found a great play!!!!!

"There are real possibilities in life, even for leftover meat and cabbage."
A reunion of the three Rosensweig sisters for the fifty-fourth birthday celebration of oldest sister Sara Goode, provides feminist author Wendy Wasserstein the opportunity to explore the role of women in society, their opportunities for success, their roles as Jews, and their searches for identity, all trademark themes for Wasserstein.In this play, however, the characters are much quirkier than usual, offering Wasserstein more opportunities for pointed, and sometimes poignant, humor than one finds in some of her other plays.All three Rosensweigs, having grown up in Brooklyn, have now moved on to other parts of the world, individually accepting what they want from their heritage while rejecting the rest.

Sara, a highly successful banker, lives with her daughter Tess in Queen Anne's Gate, London. Married and divorced twice, Sara is no longer interested in marriage, nor does she believe that she will ever return "home."The middle sister, "Gorgeous" Teitelbaum, lives in the Boston suburbs and has an advice program on Boston radio, where she is "Doctor Gorgeous."The youngest, Pfeni Rosensweig, age forty and never married, wanders the world as a journalist and is working on a study of the women of Tajikistan.None of the sisters are truly happy, though all are reasonably content.During the weekend with Sara, their relationships with each other and with the men in their lives unfold, creating tensions and crises for all.Sara's daughter Tess, about to begin college, acts as a young foil for the opinions of the older generation and puts many of their issues into a more modern perspective.

Wasserstein's ear for dialogue allows her to convey information naturally through conversations and interactions, and the scenes between Pfeni and her bisexual lover Geoffrey, a flamboyant theatre director, are hilarious, as she offers him grounding, while he gives excitement to her time away from her travels.Geoffrey's friend, Merv Kant, a furrier--and highly unlikely suitor for Sara--proves to be a kindly man who is not intimidated by Sara, though she rejects him outright.Their scenes provide the meat-and-cabbage of the thematic development as they examine their Jewish backgrounds, their feelings, and their individual hopes, if any.Gorgeous, happily married, has secret worries of her own, even as she offers advice to young Tess, who plans to go to newly liberated Lithuania with her boyfriend.

Though Wasserstein's themes are impossible to miss, this play is funnier (and less strident) than some of her other plays, and while the characters are generally stereotypes, they are quirky enough here to inspire audience sympathy, even as their absurdity becomes obvious.Written in 1992 and hugely successful on Broadway, The Sisters Rosensweig won the Outer Critics Circle Award in 1993.nMary Whipple

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Great going down memory lane!
Saw it on Broadway and just love it on tape!Hearing it just brings me right back.Oh, Wendy, I miss you!

And even if you didn't see the play you should still listen to this!Then just close your eyes and imagine!

Sweet Family Union
The Sisters Rosensweig is a terrific, sweet and very humane play about a gathering of people, in particular three Jewish American sisters in London in 1991. Each of the sisters is stuck in some way, trapped by time in their mid-lives. They are joined at oldest sister Sara's London home by Sara's daughter, and several male suitors/friends.

Throughout Wasserstein keeps the tone light and the wit cracking. Everyone of these characters is intelligent and visible, knows the world yet remains perplexed by their own lives.

To me this is the type of affirming family bound play that warms, and though life remains elusive in many ways, the sisters know they have each other and use that love and charity to sweet degrees.

Recommended, smart and funny.

Ms. Wasserstein continues to delight
Reading a play by Wendy Wasserstien is always a delight, but even though all of her writings are to be savored, The Sisters Rosensweig exhibits animportant mark in the author's maturing style.In spite of thismaturation, however, the story line never grows stale and Ms. Wassersteinnever fails to draw from her reader a smile and a laugh, and give to giveus a refreshed sense of the type of person we want to be--it's self-helpthrough fiction!

The Sisters Rosensweig follows the reunion of threeJewish sisters who come together for a visit in Queen Anne's Gate, London,and the joys and struggles they share concerning romance, careers,childhood, and family--joys and struggles with which we all identify, notonly as women but as human beings.Thank you, Ms. Wasserstien, for anotherdelightful treat! ... Read more

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Chronicles the humorous and sentimental fortunes of the four March sisters as they grow into young ladies in nineteenth-century New England. First published in 1869. ... Read more

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American Classic
"Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott has been undervalued for most of its history.This book is a true American Classic.Published originally in October of 1868, it is a story set during the Civil War, but Alcott does not deal with the specifics of the war.Instead, it serves as the pretext for the absence of Robin March, the father of the four "Little Women", for a large portion of the first book.The novel today actually consists of two books, the original "Little Women" from 1868, and the sequel "Good Wives" which was published the following year in April of 1869.The two volumes started being treated as one in 1880.

The first book deals with the growing maturity of the four sisters, and in particularly of Jo and Meg as they have to learn to help their mother out more and do with less during the war, and while their father is away.Meg is the eldest at 16 when the story begins, and Jo (who clearly represents the author) is 15.There is then a gap of a couple years with Beth being just 13 and Amy 12.Their lives transition from that of young girls to young women, and each sister has her own unique traits.Margaret "Meg" with her beauty is following the traditional path in entering society and heading towards marriage.Josephine "Jo" is attracted by intellectual pursuits, in particular reading and writing.Elizabeth "Beth" is very shy and demure.She is also a peacemaker between the sisters, and enjoys helping others.Sadly, she also falls sick and never fully recovers from scarlet fever.Amy is the baby, and likes to tag along with others.She is also used to getting her own way.

The first book is masterful in its simplicity.The story feels real, undoubtedly largely due to the author drawing on her own experiences, but Alcott also cleverly avoids adding too much into it and thereby making it unrealistic.She chooses a good steady pace, and the characters are well defined and consistently portrayed.Her dialogue is not perfect, but that adds to the overall realism of the telling of the story.It is a wonderful story for young women to read, and is also very readable for older readers.

The second book is fairly good too, though it fails to be as believable as the first book as Alcott allowed herself to be convinced to have Jo marry.Alcott never married, and the union she chooses for Jo is a bit unusual and thus it doesn't feel right.Outside of that, though, the second book is a worthy successor to the first.Meg's choice of husband fits perfectly with the character and ideals that she develops in the first book.Most of Jo's actions in the second book also fit well with her character up, including her avoiding marriage with Laurie, her friend and neighbor who plays an important role throughout both books.Only at the point where Jo marries does it not fit.The tragedy of Meg's passing is beautifully described, and the reader is touched by the goodness of her character.Lastly, the full development of Amy fits well, including her choice of spouse.

The Penguin Classics edition of "Little Women" includes a very informative introduction by Elaine Showalter and extensive notes by Siobhan Kilfeather and Vinca Showalter.One of the important notes is that this edition is based on the original publications, and not those which were amended by Alcott for later editions, though obvious printer errors were corrected.There is discussion of some of the changes which Alcott made in the notes to the text.This is a wonderful book, but I will take part of a star away and round down for Jo's forced marriage.

A childhood favorite
I like this book because of Jo March. And I never cry when Beth dies, because she annoys me.

Great Picture Book For Any Collector or Fan of the Movie!!!
This picture book is fantastic! It has several large photos from the "Little Women 1994 movie". A must have for any Little Women fan! It's something I will cherish for years to come.I also posted some pictures of the book to give an example of what the book portrays. I recieved mine new from a seller.

So Happy!
THis book was delivered in the condition promised (Brand new and shrink-wrapped). Great price too!
Thanks.

Disappointed!
Despite the Jessie Wilcox Smith illustrations on the front and back covers, I was very disappointed to discover that the artist's color plates that so perfectly capture the characters and events in this American literary classic, were omitted from this edition. Intending to give it as a gift, I ordered this bookbecause I was under the impression that it had the famous Jessie Wilcox Smith pictures.What a disappointment! ... Read more