HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.Little Men is the delightful unofficial sequel to Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women, reprising the much-cherished characters of the March family and friends, as well as some unforgettable new ones.The warm-hearted and fiesty Jo March returns (now as Jo Bhaer) and, together with husband Friedrich and the inheritance of an estate from Aunt March, opens Plumfield Estate, an unconventional school based on individuality and diversity. Jo’s own boys, a number of rescued orphans, and her nieces are all encouraged to be kind, helpful, and self-sufficient, tending their own gardens and running their own businesses. Fun and learning go hand in hand, and pillow fights are even permitted on Saturdays.Personal relationships are key to the school, as well as to the novel, and the lovable characters get up to plenty of scrapes and adventures, but in the end, even the troublesome among them find redemption in the love and support of the extended March family.
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Луиза Мэй Олкотт. Little Men: Life at Plumfield with Jo’s Boys
LITTLE MEN. Louisa May Alcott
History of Collins
Life & Times
CHAPTER 1. Nat
CHAPTER 2. The Boys
CHAPTER 3. Sunday
CHAPTER 4. Stepping-Stones
CHAPTER 5. Pattypans
CHAPTER 6. A Fire Brand
CHAPTER 7. Naughty Nan
CHAPTER 8. Pranks and Plays
CHAPTER 9. Daisy’s Ball
CHAPTER 10. Home Again
CHAPTER 11. Uncle Teddy
CHAPTER 12. Huckleberries
CHAPTER 13. Goldilocks
CHAPTER 14. Damon and Pythias
CHAPTER 15. In the Willow
CHAPTER 16. Taming the Colt
CHAPTER 17. Composition Day
CHAPTER 18. Crops
CHAPTER 19. John Brooke
CHAPTER 20. Round the Fire
CHAPTER 21. Thanksgiving
CLASSIC LITERATURE: WORDS AND PHRASES adapted from the Collins English Dictionary
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FREDDY AND JOHNNY,
THE LITTLE MEN
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Mrs. Bhaer had heard all they said, while apparently absorbed in filling mugs, and overseeing little Ted, who was so sleepy that he put his spoon in his eye, nodded like a rosy poppy, and finally fell fast asleep, with his cheek pillowed on a soft bun. Mrs. Bhaer had put Nat next to Tommy, because that roly-poly boy had a frank and social way with him, very attractive to shy persons. Nat felt this, and had made several small confidences during supper, which gave Mrs. Bhaer the key to the new boy’s character, better than if she had talked to him herself.
In the letter which Mr. Laurence had sent with Nat, he had said:
