I had suspected you would be another adorer of Little Women – I am so excited to be discovering the sequels for the first time. While most readers (especially the young ones) just breeze past the parts about the missing father and accept it, Skurnick points out a few clues hinting that Mr.

Of course not; but I don’t see the use of your having seventeen waistcoats, endless neckties, and a new hat every time you come home.I wasn’t totally happy with how all the sister’s stories tied up in Good Wives, but it was lovely to see them each find happiness in their own way. According to literary critic Sarah Elbert, when using the term "little women" Alcott was drawing on its Dickensian meaning; it represented the period in a young woman's life where childhood and elder childhood are "overlapping" with young womanhood.

I must admit that I enjoyed Eight Cousins/Rose in Bloom more than the Little Women books but that An Old Fashioned Girl is my favourite Alcott. I had a young friend who set up housekeeping with six sheets, but she had finger bowls for company, and that satisfied her,” said Mrs.Ruth MacDonald argued that "Louisa May Alcott stands as one of the great American practitioners of the girls' novel and the family story. Every God hearing woman (and man for that matter) should arrive to be obedient to those placed in power over them, a blessing to those around them, and have a strong independence that will make them stand up for what is right. In fact, he rather prided himself on his narrow escapes, and liked to thrill the girls with graphic accounts of his triumphs over wrathful tutors, dignified professors, and vanquished enemies. There were no marble-topped tables, long mirrors, or lace curtains in the little parlor, but simple furniture, plenty of books, a fine picture or two, a stand of flowers in the bay window, and, scattered all about, the pretty gifts which came from friendly hands, and were the fairer for the loving messages they brought.

While Marmee is in Washington, Beth contracts scarlet fever after spending time with a poor family where three children die. So, it was much to my surprise that a few chapters in, I found myself rather enchanted, and subsequently made my way through the second book Good Wives as well within a space of a week. Versions in the late 20th and 21st centuries combine both portions into one book, under the title Little Women, with the later-written portion marked as Part 2. Yes Jo’s Boys and Little Men are the two sequels to Little Women and Good Wives, there aren’t any others.You wouldn’t have me let that fine fellow work himself to death, just for the want of a little help, when he is worth a dozen of us lazy chaps, would you? Discover the joy of reading with us, your trusted source for affordable books that do not compromise on quality. Although I absolutely adore the sisters and learning about how they grow and develop over the course of Good Wives, this book definitely lost a little of the magic I felt in Little Women. You won’t show the soft side of your character, and if a fellow gets a peep at it by accident, and can’t help showing that he likes it, you treat him as Mrs. Little Women and Good Wives are a thinly disguised Pilgrim’s Progress, the March girl’s favourite book, and I can understand that the didactic and religious overtones can be a little too much for the modern reader.

The stories are moral heavy and the writing isn’t particularly outstanding or quote worthy for a classic, but it will warm your soul and comfort your heart as if it had been placed by a crackling fire. Schutzumschlag leicht berieben und leicht bestoßen an den Kanten, Einriss oben am Rücken, Buchschnitt fleckig / gebräunt, Vorbesitzerstempel auf Nachsatz. The sequel, Little Men, mentions a baby daughter, Josephine "Josie" Brooke, [14] who is 14 at the beginning of the final book. The story follows the lives of the four March sisters—Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy—and details their passage from childhood to womanhood.However, I absolutely adored this book and it gave me a lot to think about, as I dripped tears onto the pages, laughed, and gave satisfied sighs at these delightful girls’ various antics. Laurie is the "boy next door" to the March family and has an overprotective paternal grandfather, Mr. I’ve read all of the sequels too (and Little Women in parts 1 and 2 volume) and I do love those March Women. If Meg had four the house wouldn’t hold them, and master and missis would have to camp in the garden,” broke in Jo, who, enveloped in a big blue pinafore, was giving the last polish to the door handles.