Little Men: Life at Plumfield with Jo’s Boys (Collins Classics) - Softcover

Alcott, Louisa May

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9780007931187: Little Men: Life at Plumfield with Jo’s Boys (Collins Classics)

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ISBN 10: 0007931182 ISBN 13: 9780007931187

Publisher: William Collins, 2013

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Little Men is the delightful unofficial sequel to Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women, reprising the much-cherished characters of the March family and friends, as well as some unforgettable new ones.

The warm-hearted and fiesty Jo March returns (now as Jo Bhaer) and, together with husband Friedrich and the inheritance of an estate from Aunt March, opens Plumfield Estate, an unconventional school based on individuality and diversity. Jo’s own boys, a number of rescued orphans, and her nieces are all encouraged to be kind, helpful, and self-sufficient, tending their own gardens and running their own businesses. Fun and learning go hand in hand, and pillow fights are even permitted on Saturdays.

Personal relationships are key to the school, as well as to the novel, and the lovable characters get up to plenty of scrapes and adventures, but in the end, even the troublesome among them find redemption in the love and support of the extended March family.

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Paperback. Pub Date :2013-05-09 Pages: 368 Language: English Publisher: HarperCollins UK HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved. essential classics Power. corruption and betrayal are at the heart of Shakespeares most well-. known historical and political drama. As Julius Caesar moves closer to securing power for himself and is perceived by some as a threat to Roman citizens. his senators plot to bring about his downfall. Caesars assassination leads to civil war rather than peace and the play explores the subsequent deaths of the conspirators Brutus and Cassius. Shakespeares contemporaries would have spotted the playwrights attempts to use the shift from republican to imperial Rome to highlight the political situation of the Elizabethans at the time. Featuring some of the most powerfully resonant and rousing speeches of any of Shakespeares plays....

Review:

"Louisa May Alcott is the only author who remains both popular and literary today... Little Women was widely read, but its sequel Little Men even more so, perhaps because it was checked out by boys, too." (New York Times)

"Six generations of readers have found in the story of the March family universal truths about girls, families and growing up" (Guardian)

"The best boys - in the literary sense - that we have ever come across" (Spectator)

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