Jo's Boys
Louisa May Alcott (1832 – 1888) needs little introduction, as she is one of the most famous American female authors, whose most famous work is Little Women. She also served as a nurse for six weeks during the Civil War at Union Hospital in Georgetown, and her letters were compiled to create...
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Louisa May Alcott (1832 – 1888) needs little introduction, as she is one of the most famous American female authors, whose most famous work is Little Women. She also served as a nurse for six weeks during the Civil War at Union Hospital in Georgetown, and her letters were compiled to create Hospital Sketches.
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Format: Paperback
ISBN:
9781519575265 (1519575262)
ASIN: 1519575262
Publish date: 2015-11-28
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform (2010-12-22)
Pages no: 210
Edition language: English
Series: Little Women (#3)
As much as I loved Little Women, you would think that I would have found the ongoing saga of the March family more entertaining than I actually did.This book takes place about ten years after Little Men, as the boys at Plumfield School are heading off to college or out into the world. I found the bo...
I've been listening to this at night, along with Little Men, for the last few weeks. I haven't a shred of objectivity abou this particular book, as it's one of my all-time favorites. Revisiting it as an adult, I can see more clearly some of its weaknesses, in particular its preachifying and the stil...
Standing by the 5 stars. As I've said before, these people are too intimately wound up with my psyche to be rated objectively. There's some preaching but to my eye it's not as heavy-handed as in Little Women. There are lots of great female role-models (with respect to the times). All of the young wo...