Little Men: Life at Plumfield With Jo's Boys

Alcott, Louisa May

ISBN 10: 0316031089 ISBN 13: 9780316031080

Publisher: Little Brown & Co, 1994

Synopsis

Adventures in Jo March and her husband Professor Bhaer's school for boys--a place of light, warmth, comfort, and delights, where self-knowledge and self-control are acquired along with book learning

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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"""

From the Back Cover:

Jo March, the tomboy heroine of Little Women, has grown up! She returns in this beloved sequel as a young woman with a family of her own. Jo and her husband, Professor Bhaer, open their hearts (and their home) to educate and care for a handful of rowdy yet well-meaning youngsters.
Plumfield, the school where the boys learn "how to help themselves and be useful men," has a spirited student body that includes--in addition to the Bhaers' two sons--Nat, an orphaned street musician, cold and frightened when he first appears at the Bhaers' door; business-minded Tommy; Dan, a "wild boy" eventually tamed by love and kindness; and other endearing little mischief-makers.
Outside the classroom, the boys rush headlong from one prank to another--from playing matador with the family cow to nearly setting the school afire with a smoldering cigar stub. But in the end, they prove to have a positive effect on the lives of the entire Bhaer family.

About this edition

• Publisher: Little Brown & Co
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0316031089
• ISBN 13: 9780316031080
• Binding: Library Binding