Literary Quiz

You've just seen Little Women. Now dry your tears and read the book -- but which version? At your local bookstore you'll be confronted with the Louisa May Alcott classic as well as a new "novelization" based on the screenplay based on the classic. Below is a key passage from each. Can you tell which was written to please the marketing department at Columbia Pictures and which came from the pen of an impecunious schoolteacher, seamstress, nurse and domestic who grew up surrounded by fiery abolitionists and transcendentalists? (Warning! Don't read further if you're male and therefore don't already know how...

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