Louisa May Alcott

In this sequel to Little women, Jo founds a school at Plumfield.

When fourteen-year-old Polly Milton goes to stay with her friend Fanny for the summer, she finds that the Shaw family's wealthy city life couldn't be more different from her country upbringing. With her plain clothes and more practical interests, Polly is out of place among a crowd focused on following the latest trends and presenting the right image. One of the few people who doesn't pressure her to fit in is Fanny's brother, Tom, but he's also one...

Eran cuatro hermanas, cuatro muchachas, cuatro personalidades muy distintas. Meg, la mayor, tenía unos modales serenos de señorita, Jo, la segunda, nunca estaba quieta y soñaba con una carrera de gran escritora. La dulce Beth, delicada como una flor, era la consentida de todos, y siempre pensaba en los demás. Por último Amy, la más pequeña, prestaba demasiada atención a su aspecto y se quejaba más que las demás por las cosas que no tenían. Una...

After the death of her father, thirteen-year-old Rose Campbell is sent to live with the matriarchs of her father's wealthy Boston family, whom she's never met, and, with the help of her appointed guardian, flourishes and comes to love her eccentric family.

Better known for her novels „Little Women" and „Little Men", Louisa May Alcott continued the story of her feisty protagonist Jo in this final novel chronicling the adventures and misadventures of the March family. It is the only Alcott novel that has not had a film adaption. Originally published in 1886, two years before Ms. Alcott's death, Jo's boys follows the lives of the young men readers came to love and cherish in its prequel. In it, we...

Orphaned Rose Campbell finds it difficult to fit in when she goes to live with her six aunts and seven mischievous boy cousins.

"A runaway finds a new home in a small town with supportive and benevolent friends. Twelve-year-old Ben Brown flees the circus with his best dog friend, Sancho, to look for his missing father. While searching, Ben is employed by Miss Celia, who cares for him and agrees to let him live in her house until he receives word of his father's whereabouts. Though Ben finds himself happier with this new life, the lack of circus adventure leaves him unsure...

"The Abbot's Ghost" is an 1867 novel by American author Louisa May Alcott. Maurice Treherne becomes crippled as a result of saving his cousin's life during a misadventure involving on the water. Despite being grateful for this fateful deed, his cousin Jasper isn't very good at showing his appreciation. When Treherne realises he is in love with his other cousin Octavia, her mother attempts to keep them apart until a ghostly intervention paves the way...

After the death of her parents, Christie Devon declares her autonomy and desire to pioneer a new option for women-working. As a single woman, Christie wants to maintain her independence and work outside the home. She begins her journey discouraged to find that as a woman, her upbringing has failed her in that she was not taught a trade, as men often were, but rather the duties of a housewife. Christie first works as a maid, knowing there was no shame...

Louisa May Alcott (1832 - 1888) was an American short story writer, novelist, and poet most famous for writing the novel "Little Women", as well as its sequels "Little Men" and "Jo's Boys". She grew up in New England and became associated with numerous notable intellectuals of her time, including Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and Henry David Thoreau. First published in 1863, Alcott's "Pauline's Passion and Punishment"...