Little Men: Life at Plumfield With Jo's Boys

by Louisa May Alcott

Overview

Little Men, or Life at Plumfield with Jo's Boys is a novel by American author Louisa May Alcott, first published in 1871. Little Men tells the story of Jo Bhaer and the children at Plumfield Estate School. The novel has been adapted to a film and a 1997 television series.

Little Men follows the life of Jo Bhaer and the students who live and learn at the Plumfield Estate School that she runs with her husband, Professor Bhaer. The mischievous children, whom she loves and cares for as her own, learn valuable lessons as they become proper gentlemen and ladies. We also get cameo appearances of almost all the characters found in the previous books, almost all of them happy and well. Meg's older two children, Demi and Daisy, also attend the school and so do Mr. Bhaer's German nephews Franz and Emil.

The story begins with the arrival of Nathaniel "Nat" Blake, a shy young orphan with a talent for playing the violin and a penchant for telling fibs. Through his eyes we are introduced to the majority of the characters, from the Bhaers' children to other classmates. We follow Nat's life from April through Thanksgiving, meeting new students and playing games and having adventures throughout. Each student has his or her own struggles: Nat lies; Demi, although adored by his mother and sister, is so naïve that he finds it hard to live in the real world, but swears that he will be like 'parpar' after John Brooke (Meg's husband) dies; Emil has a bad temper; Dan is rebellious and rude; Tommy is careless (and once sets the house afire); Annie alias Nan is too tomboyish; Daisy is too prim and even weak-willed etc. They all learn to cope with their faults as they grow into young men and women.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9798889420033
Publisher:	Indoeuropeanpublishing.com
Publication date:	01/06/2023
Pages:	232
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.75(d)

About the Author

Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888) was an American novelist and poet best known as the author of the novel Little Women and its sequels Little Men and Jo's Boys. Raised by her transcendentalist parents, she grew up among many of the well-known intellectuals of the day such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry David Thoreau. Little Women is loosely based on Alcott's childhood experiences with her three sisters.

Table of Contents

1.	Nat	1
2.	The Boys	15
3.	Sunday	23
4.	Steppingstones	41
5.	Pattypans	52
6.	A Firebrand	70
7.	Naughty Nan	89
8.	Pranks and Plays	99
9.	Daisy's Ball	110
10.	Home Again	122
11.	Uncle Teddy	138
12.	Huckleberries	152
13.	Goldilocks	174
14.	Damon and Pythias	182
15.	In the Willow	202
16.	Taming the Colt	219
17.	Composition Day	229
18.	Crops	242
19.	John Brooke	252
20.	Round the Fire	265
21.	Thanksgiving	285