Little Men - Softcover

Alcott, Louisa May

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0590412795 ISBN 13: 9780590412797

Publisher: Apple, 1992

Synopsis

Louisa May Alcott's classic story about young boys growing up in nineteenth-century New England

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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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Apple
• Publication date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0590412795
• ISBN 13: 9780590412797
• Binding: Paperback