Beginning ten years after Little Men, Jo's Boys revisits Plumfield, the New England school still presided over by Jo and her husband, Professor Bhaer. Jo remains at the center of the tale, surrounded by her boys - including rebellious Dan, sailor Emil, and promising musician Nat - as they experience shipwreck and storm, disappointment and even murder.

Jo's Boys

Meg is the eldest and on the brink of love. Then there's tomboy Jo who longs to be a writer. Sweet-natured Beth always puts others first, and finally there's Amy, the youngest and most precocious. Together they are the March sisters. Even though money is short, times are tough and their father is away at war, their infectious sense of fun sweeps everyone up in their adventures - including Laurie, the boy next door. And through sisterly squabbles, their happy times and sad ones too, the sisters discover that growing up is sometimes very hard to do.

Based on Louisa May Alcott's childhood, this lively portrait of nineteenth-century family life possesses a lasting vitality that has endeared it to generations of readers.

A wonderful story... As a child, I strongly identified with Jo because she is a writer. -Jacqueline Wilson

The American female myth. -Madelon Bedell

It is an essential American novel, perhaps the essential American novel for girls. Girls come to it on their own. -Jane Smiley

In "Little Women", Alcott anticipated realism by twenty or thirty years. -G. K. Chesterton

Little Women

Meg, Jo, Beth et Amy sont quatre sœurs qui s’entendent bien. En pleine guerre de Sécession, leur père part sur le front. Alors tout le monde doit se mettre au travail. Entre Meg la raisonnable, Jo l’impétueuse, Amy la raffinée et Beth la délicate, les discussions sont passionnées et la maison rarement silencieuse !

Les quatre filles du docteur March

"I want something to do."

This remark being addressed to the world in general, no one in particular felt it their duty to reply; so I repeated it to the smaller world about me, received the following suggestions, and settled the matter by answering my own inquiry, as people are apt to do when very much in earnest.

"Write a book, " quoth the author of my being.

"Don't know enough, sir. First live, then write."

"Try teaching again, " suggested my mother.

"No thank you, ma'am, ten years of that is enough."

"Take a husband like my Darby, and fulfill your mission, " said sister Joan, home on a visit.

"Can't afford expensive luxuries, Mrs. Coobiddy."

"Turn actress, and immortalize your name, " said sister Vashti, striking an attitude.

"I won't."

"Go nurse the soldiers, " said my young brother, Tom, panting for "the tented field."

"I will!"

Hospital Sketches

POLLY wrote enthusiastically, Ned answered satisfactorily, and after much corresponding, talking, and planning, it was decided that Tom should go West. Never mind what the business was; it suffices to say that it was a good beginning for a young man like Tom, who, having been born and bred in the most conservative class of the most conceited city in New England, needed just the healthy, hearty, social influences of the West to widen his views and make a man of him.

Of course there was much lamentation among the women, but every one felt it was the best thing for him; so while they sighed they sewed, packed visions of a brilliant future away with his new pocket handkerchiefs, and rejoiced that the way was open before him even in the act of bedewing his boots with tears. Sydney stood by him to the last, "like a man and a brother" (which expression of Tom's gave Fanny infinite satisfaction), and Will felt entirely consoled for Ned's disappointment at his refusal to go and join him, since Tom was to take the place Ned had kept for him.

An Old Fashioned Girl

L’histoire de Meg, Jo, Beth et Amy a traversé le siècle sous des titres divers, Les Quatre Filles du docteur March étant le plus célèbre et sans doute le moins exact, puisque leur père n’est pas médecin, mais bien pasteur. Cette chronique d’une année dans la vie d’une famille américaine pendant la guerre de Sécession est bien autobiographique, mais, à l’image de la famille de l’auteur, celle des March n’est ni aussi conventionnelle ni aussi ordinaire qu’on a bien voulu le faire croire au lecteur. Car, de ce livre, ressort la figure forte de Josephine, dite Jo : alter ego affiché de Louisa May Alcott, elle est la rebelle en conflit avec le modèle féminin en vigueur dans la société puritaine de l’Amérique du XIXe siècle. Elle dit qu’on peut être mal dans la peau d’une fille dans le Boston des années 1860, avoir envie de prendre des airs de garçon et nourrir de farouches ambitions littéraires, être pieuse sans être soumise – bref, qu’on peut vivre en 1868 et être progressiste. Alors, ces Quatre Filles, roman mièvre, féminin et bien pensant ? Rien n’est moins sûr. C’est ce que cette nouvelle traduction, abrégée par l’auteur d’autres soeurs inoubliables, s’efforce de montrer.

Les quatre soeurs March sont devenues de vraies jeunes femmes ! Le Docteur March est enfin rentré, et trouve ses filles transformées. Il va devoir ré-apprendre à les connaître... ce qui n’est pas une mince affaire !

Le Dr March marie ses filles

Dall'autrice di Piccole donne, amata da generazioni di lettrici e di lettori, considerata come una delle più originali e rivoluzionarie scrittrici di sempre. Una rarissima perla letteraria, una scoperta assolutamente straordinaria. Dodici racconti, quasi tutti finora inediti in Italia, tratti dalla raccolta Lulu's Library, una serie di storie per bambini scritte da Louisa May Alcott, l'autrice di Piccole donne, nel 1885. Nate come favole della buonanotte per la nipotina, queste storie ebbero poi così tanto successo tra la bambina e i suoi amici che l'autrice decise di farne un libro: « Non avendo nient'altro da regalare quest'anno, le ho raccolte in un solo volume come dono di Natale ». Ne emerge, come nella sua saga più celebre, un insieme di semplicità e di ricchezza di temi, un precorrere i tempi, anche politicamente, una capacità straordinaria di narrare e di trasmettere valori che al suo tempo erano assolutamente rivoluzionari. Un libro per bambini ma anche per genitori, e per chiunque voglia esplorare il mondo straordinario di una scrittrice che ancora oggi, dopo quasi due secoli, non cessa di stupirci e affascinarci.

Storie di Natale - Racconti inediti

On est en Amérique, en pleine guerre de Sécession. Le docteur March est au front et sa petite famille doit survivre. Heureusement, les quatre sœurs March et leur mère forment un clan très uni qui affronte l'adversité avec courage et bonne humeur malgré tout.

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