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Catherine asks him to bring her back a whip. 0.900

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Simplified: Catherine asks him to bring her back a whip

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Catherine’s father announces that he’s going to Liverpool. 0.900

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Simplified: Catherine's father announces he is going to Liverpool

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The book resists taming. 0.900

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Simplified: The book resists taming

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He becomes Catherine’s playmate, her surrogate brother and her great, tormented, tormenting, unconsummated love. 0.900

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Simplified: He becomes Catherine's playmate her surrogate brother and her great tormented tormenting unconsummated love

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Their story ends tragically with unhinged sublimity. 0.900

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Simplified: Their story ends tragically with unhinged sublimity

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In real life, Alcott was equally put off by readers’ demands after the first half of “Little Women” came out, writing that she wouldn’t “marry Jo to Laurie to please anyone” (although she didn’t keep... 0.900

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Simplified: Alcott was put off by readers' demands after the first half of “Little Women” came out

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Jo, a senior at Concord High and a thirsty social media star, can be a ruthless careerist, her temper almost uncontrollable. 1.000

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Simplified: Jo can be a ruthless careerist.

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As Jo puts it, “I like good strong words that mean something.” 0.900

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Simplified: Jo likes good strong words that mean something

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In “Little Women,” it’s Beth’s loss that destabilizes the entire family, serving as a catalyst for several major life decisions. 1.000

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Simplified: Beth's loss destabilizes the entire family in “Little Women”.

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Beth, who’s been offered a shot at the prestigious Plumfield School for the Arts by the cool New York career woman Aunt March, is self-effacing but frustrated. 1.000

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Simplified: Beth is self-effacing but frustrated.

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In the original book, she is saintly and sweet, exposing herself to serious illness in her eagerness to do good and saying mortifying things like, “Little birds in their nests agree,” when her more hu... 1.000

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Simplified: Beth is saintly and sweet in the original book.

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Ultimately, the March sisters discover answers by going back to the text. 0.900

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Simplified: March sisters discover answers by going back to the text

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“Critics have called her a flat character,” says Meg, after finally reading her father’s novel, “but she’s more complicated on the page than everyone likes to believe.” 0.900

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Simplified: Critics called her a flat character but she is more complicated on the page

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Alcott’s coming-of-age novel has been adapted so often that at this point it’s reached a certain American cultural saturation: Most of us know the formula of four girls, a stern but loving mother, a n... 1.000

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Simplified: Alcott's coming-of-age novel has been adapted often reaching American cultural saturation.

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In the metaverse of “Beth Is Dead,” there’s a Beth hive — a contingent of fans and readers obsessed with getting her justice — but even this feels alienating to the sisters. 0.900

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Simplified: In the metaverse of “Beth Is Dead” a Beth hive feels alienating to the sisters

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BETH IS DEAD (Sarah Barley/Simon & Schuster, 400 pp., $19.99, ages 12 and up), in which Katie Bernet reimagines “Little Women” as a young-adult murder mystery. 1.000

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Simplified: Katie Bernet reimagines “Little Women” as a young-adult murder mystery in BETH IS DEAD.

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In “Little Monsters,” the Moffats and Mr. Laurence cameo; in “Beth Is Dead,” Henry Hummel works at “Lotty’s Diner” and Fred Vaughn is a cheesy, predatory British artist who blasts EDM in his studio. 1.000

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Simplified: The Moffats and Mr Laurence cameo in “Little Monsters” and Henry Hummel works at “Lotty’s Diner” and Fred Vaughn is a cheesy British artist in “Beth I...

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Alcott’s own younger sister Elizabeth “Lizzie” Sewall Alcott really was known even in life as “the angel in the house,” did contract an illness while helping a poor family and died at the age of 22. 1.000

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Simplified: Elizabeth “Lizzie” Sewall Alcott was known as “the angel in the house” contracted an illness and died at 22.

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Meg is smart and loving, yes, but can be materialistic and is ashamed of her relationship with the less ambitious John Brooke, portrayed here as something of a loser. 1.000

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Simplified: Meg can be materialistic and is ashamed of her relationship with John Brooke.

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7 months ago
Bhaer might not have liked it, but Alcott got her start writing thrillers as tightly plotted as “Little Monsters” and “Beth Is Dead” — check out “A Whisper in the Dark” and “The Abbot’s Ghost.” 0.900

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Simplified: Alcott got her start writing thrillers as tightly plotted as “Little Monsters” and “Beth Is Dead”

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