Little Men - Softcover

Louisa May Alcott

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140367136 ISBN 13: 9780140367133

Publisher: Puffin Classics, 1995

Synopsis

The third book about the March family and their friends.

With two sons of her own, and twelve rescued orphan boys filling the informal school at Plumfield, Jo March (now Jo Bhaer) couldn't be happier. But despite the warm and affectionate help of the whole March family, boys have a habit of getting into scrapes and there are plenty of troubles and adventures ahead.

About this title

Review:

"A natural source of stories...she is, and is to be, the poet of children."--Ralph Waldo Emerson "The novelist of children...the Thackeray, the Trollope, of the nursery and the schoolroom."--Henry James "The best boys--in the literary sense--that we have ever come across." --"London"" Spectator"""

About the Author:

Louisa May Alcott (1832 88) was brought up in Pennsylvania, USA. She turned to writing in order to supplement the family income and had many short stories published in magazines and newspapers. Then, in 1862, during the height of the American Civil War, Louisa went to Georgetown to work as a nurse, but she contracted typhoid. Out of her experiences she wrote Hospital Sketches (1864) which won wide acclaim, followed by an adult novel, Moods.

She was reluctant to write a children's book but then realized that in herself and her three sisters she had the perfect models. The result was Little Women (1868) which became the earliest American children's novel to become a classic

About this edition

• Publisher: Puffin Classics
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0140367136
• ISBN 13: 9780140367133
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 384