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Little Men: Life at Plumfield With Jo's Boys
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This novel by Louisa May Alcott follows Jo Bhaer and her husband as they run Plumfield, a school for boys, and portrays the children's daily lessons and adventures. It suits readers interested in nineteenth-century American fiction and admirers of Alcott's Little Women.
Louisa May Alcott
Louisa May Alcott was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet best known for writing the novel Little Women (1868) and its sequels Good Wives (1869), Little Men (1871), and Jo's Boys (1886). Raised in New England by her transcendentalist parents, Abigail May and Amos Bronson Alcott, she grew up among many well-known intellectuals of the day, including Margaret Fuller, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry David Thoreau. Encouraged by her family, Alcott began writing from an early age.
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