CHRISTMAS won’t be Christmas without any presents,’ grumbled Jo, lying on the rug.”
Thus begins the classic novel Little Women by Louisa May Alcott. The four March sisters, including second oldest Jo, are facing a bleak Christmas without their father, who is away with the army in the American Civil War, and the possibility of not getting any presents due to their straitened circumstances.
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