Little Men: Life at Plumfield With Jo's Boys - Couverture rigide

Alcott, Louisa May

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1857159403 ISBN 13 : 9781857159400

Editeur : Childrens Classics, 1995

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Just two years after the extraordinarily successful publication of LITTLE WOMEN and GOOD WIVES, Louisa Alcott's brother-in-law died, leaving two sons. She immediately decided to write a sequel to provide for her sister and nephews, and LITTLE MEN, published in 1871, became a tribute to her father's theories of education. The story is set in Plumfield, a school run by Jo and her German husband, Professor Bhaer, and they follow the precepts of Grandpa March in cultivating the little mind - 'not tasking it with long hard lessons, parrot-learned, but helping it to unfold as naturally and beautifully as sun and dew help roses bloom'. The different ways in which the children, good and bad, respond to this kind of nurturing make up the episodes of the novel which instantly proved as popular as its predecessors, selling 42, 000 in the first year after its publication.

Biographie de l'auteur :

Louisa May Alcott was both an abolitionist and a feminist. She is best known for Little Women (1868), a semiautobiographical account of her childhood years with her sisters in Concord, Massachusetts. Alcott, unlike Jo, never married: ""...because I have fallen in love with so many pretty girls and never once the least bit with any man."" She was an advocate of women's suffrage and was the first woman to register to vote in Concord, Massachusetts.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Childrens Classics
• Date d'édition: 1995
• ISBN 10: 1857159403
• ISBN 13: 9781857159400
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 400