Last week I finished reading Transcendental Wife: the life of Abigail May Alcott, by Cynthia H. Barton (Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1996 ( Read more... )

Listening to it on CD audiobook, I began to think. Almost everyone who got that far admits to crying when Beth dies; but do other people cry when Jo rejects Laurie?
Also, do you think the books will endure as classics for the present generation, or will they get tossed out, along with the Little House books, by Princess Diaries fans?