By Category: Classics - Little Men BY LOUISA M. ALCOTT

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 in store.

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By Category: Classics - Jo's Boys BY LOUISA M. ALCOTT

The fourth and last book about the March family.

Ten years after the school at Plumfield was founded, there is now a college, build with a legacy from old Mr. Lawrence. All Jo's original children are grown young men scattered around the world, and graceful young women with high ambitions. But the young men face as many troubles as children do, and they are still "Jo's Boys".

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LOUISA MAY ALCOTT (1832 - 88) was brought up in Pennysylvania in the United States. Her father was not a practical man and Louisa and her three sisters spent their childhood witnessing the failure of a school based on his own radical, idealist educational theories (as in Little Men), a farm and a Utopian vegetarian community. By her mid-teens, Louisa had to find a way to supplement the family income.

For some years, she wrote lurid short stories for magazines and newspaper, and for publishers of dime novels - cheap paperback novels with melodramatic plots. Then, in 1862, when the fury of the American Civil War was at its height, Louisa went to Georgetown to work as a nurse. The conditions were frightful and she contracted typhoid fever and pneumonia. Her health was ruined for life, but her reputation was made. From her experience she wrote a series of Hospital Sketches which won wide acclaim on publication in 1864. In the same year, an adult novel, Moods, based on her love for the famous American philosopher Henry David Thoreau, was also published.

She was in demand as a writer, and a forward-thinking publisher persuaded her to write a children's book. At first she was reluctant; but then she realized that in herself and her three sisters, and in their childhood, she had the perfect models (Jo march is modelled in Louisa both in build and character). The result was Little Women, first published in book form in 1868 (Little Men followed in 1871). This was the earliest American children's novel to become a classic. The tone is moralistic, but not didactic; and although it is called a children's book, the lifelike characters and situations had adults too, eagerly waiting for the next installment (it was originally published as a magazine serial) and grown men weeping at the tragic episodes. Over a century after the author's death, the book has still as much as power to move its countless readers.

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