Une année, avec ses joies et ses peines, de la vie de Meg, Jo, Beth et Amy March, quatre soeurs âgées de onze à seize ans. Leur père absent - la guerre de Sécession fait rage et il est aumônier dans l'armée nordiste -, elles aident leur mère à assumer les tâches quotidiennes. Ce qu'elles font avec leur caractère bien différent : Meg, la romantique, qui va éprouver les émois d'un premier amour ; Jo, qui ne se départit jamais d'un humour à toute épreuve ; la généreuse Beth ; la blonde Amy, enfin, qui se laisse aller parfois à une certaine vanité...
Trois ans ont passé depuis l'épilogue des Quatre filles du docteur March. Les quatre soeurs sont aujourd'hui des jeunes femmes. Meg épouse «son» John et s'épanouit dans son rôle de mère au foyer, Jo continue à écrire et à publier ses nouvelles dans des journaux, Beth toujours aussi discrète et de santé fragile puise dans le quotidien et l'affection des siens la force de vivre tandis qu'Amy, la charmeuse, virevolte tel un papillon et fait battre les coeurs.
Dix ans se sont écoulés depuis Le rêve de Jo March. À côté de Plumfield se dresse désormais une véritable petite université dans laquelle on vient de loin pour étudier. Si les garçons de Jo sont de solides gaillards égaillés de par le monde, ils n'oublient pas pour autant Plumfield ni bien sûr Mme Jo, plus que jamais de bon conseil dans les moments délicats : ceux où les coeurs encore tendres connaissent leurs premières épreuves !
L'infatigable Jo March a enfin la vie dont elle rêvait. Sa grande maison - presque aussi grande que son coeur - est toujours ouverte aux enfants défavorisés. Que d'aventures, que de petits drames, que de situations drôles et cocasses ! Quand une bonne douzaine de jeunes garçons vivent ensemble sous la houlette d'une femme telle que Jo, on ne risque guère de s'ennuyer !
Je voudrais faire quelque chose d'extraordinaire...
Un acte héroïque ou hors du commun qui ne sera jamais oublié après ma mort. Je ne sais pas quoi, mais je saisirai l'occasion au vol, et je vous étonnerai tous, un de ces quatre. Sinon, il ne me restera plus qu' à écrire pour devenir célèbre. Au fond, c'est cela, mon rêve préféré.
Replongez dans l'histoire des quatre soeurs les plus célèbres de la littérature américaine avec cette magnifique édition comportant des illustrations de Frank Thayer Merrill, célèbre pour ses dessins ornant la première édition illustrée des Quatre Filles du docteur March.Un siècle et demi après leur création, éternellement jeunes et attachantes, revoilà Meg, Jo, Beth et Amy avec leurs petites joies, leurs tracas quotidiens... et les drames qui les dépassent parfois. Alors que leur père sert comme aumônier dans l'armée durant la guerre de Sécession, elles tentent de garder un semblant de paix dans leur foyer et, surtout, d'aider leur mère adorée à surmonter la solitude et à lutter contre la ruine de leur famille. Une même conviction anime ces quatre soeurs au caractère bien trempé : ensemble elles sont plus fortes. Jusqu'à ce que la mort ou l'amour les séparent...Redécouvrez Les Quatre Filles du docteur March grâce à cette toute nouvelle traduction. Classique intemporel, ce roman met à l'honneur les relations sororales et l'émancipation féminine.
« Il y eut un livre où je crus reconnaître mon visage et mon destin : Les Quatre Filles du docteur March de Louisa May Alcott. » Simone de Beauvoir« Mon héroïne de roman préférée est Jo March. Il n'est pas difficile de comprendre ce qu'elle a pu représenter pour une petite jeune fille colérique également appelée Jo qui rêvait elle aussi d'écrire. » J.K. Rowling
Meg, Jo, Beth et Amy vivent aux États-Unis et s'entendent plutôt bien pour des soeurs ! En pleine guerre de Sécession, leur père est parti sur le front, alors tout le monde travaille dur. Mais entre Meg la raisonnable, Jo l'impétueuse, Amy la raffinée et Beth la délicate, les discussions sont passionnées et la maison rarement silencieuse !
Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy are four sisters trying to support the family and keep their spirit up while their father is at war. Each one of them has a unique vivid personality which helps them overcome the hardships of poverty. Showing the transition from childhood to womanhood, "Little Women" together with its sequels: "Good Wives", "Little Men", and "Jo's Boys", has been one of the most widely read novels in the world. It has inspired numerous adaptations including a 2019 movie starring Emma Watson with six Academy Award nominations.Louisa May Alcott (1832 - 1888) was an American novelist, short story writer and poet. Having grown up in poverty, May Alcott was a passionate advocate for women's rights and abolitionist. She is best known as the author of the March Family Series: "Little Women", "Good Wives", "Little Men" and "Jo's Boys". The story of the March sisters has inspired numerous adaptations including a 2019 movie starring Emma Watson with six Academy Award nominations.
"Little Men" recounts the life of Jo: the second and most temperamental of the March sisters, known from "Little Women" and "Good Wives".
Now a married woman with two sons of her own, and twelve rescued orphan boys filling the informal school at Plumfield, she couldn't be happier. Together with its sequel "Jo's Boys", the "March Family" tetralogy has been one of the most widely read in the world. It has inspired numerous adaptations including a 2019 movie starring Emma Watson with six Academy Award nominations.
Louisa May Alcott (1832 - 1888) was an American novelist, short story writer and poet.Having grown up in poverty, May Alcott was a passionate advocate for women's rights and abolitionist. She is best known as the author of the March Family Series: "Little Women", "Good Wives", "Little Men" and "Jo's Boys". The story of the March sisters has inspired numerous adaptations including a 2019 movie starring Emma Watson with six Academy Award nominations.
After "Little Women's" immediate commercial and critical success readers demanded to know more about Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy. In "Good Wives", Louisa May Alcott follows the dinamic life of the beloved March sisters and their further character development. The novel together with its sequels "Little Men", and "Jo's Boys", has been one of the most widely read in the world. It has inspired numerous adaptations including a 2019 movie starring Emma Watson with six Academy Award nominations.
Louisa May Alcott (1832 - 1888) was an American novelist best known as author of the novel Little Women, Good Wives and the sequels Little Men and Jo's Boys. The first part of Little Women: or Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy (1868), is a semi-autobiographical account of her childhood with her sisters in Concord, Massachusetts. Part two, or Part Second, also known as Good Wives (1869), followed the March sisters into adulthood and their respective marriages. Little Men (1871) detailed Jo's life at the Plumfield School that she founded with her husband Professor Bhaer at the conclusion of Part Two of Little Women. And Jo's Boys (1886) completed the "March Family Saga". Alcott made women's rights integral to her stories, and her fiction became her "most important feminist contribution" - even considering all the efforts Alcott made to help facilitate women's rights during her lifetime.
After traveling around the world for several years, Rose Campbell returns home to find her boy cousins all grown up. In this upbeat sequel to Eight Cousins, Rose has become an attractive heiress and is now drawing the attention of several male suiters. But like Pride & Prejudice and Anne of Green Gables, Rose in Bloom (1876) shows a woman ahead of her time with her own ideas about her future. Besides, who would love Rose for her and not her money? The answer might surprise her. Heart-warming and swoony, Rose in Bloom is the story of a little girl who has grown into a young woman with her own great love story.
This carefully crafted ebook: "All the 4 Little Women Books: Little Women, Good Wives, Little Men, Jo's Boys" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Louisa May Alcott (1832 - 1888) was an American novelist best known as author of the novel Little Women, Good Wives and the sequels Little Men and Jo's Boys. The first part of Little Women: or Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy (1868), is a semi-autobiographical account of her childhood with her sisters in Concord, Massachusetts. Part two, or Part Second, also known as Good Wives (1869), followed the March sisters into adulthood and their respective marriages. Little Men (1871) detailed Jo's life at the Plumfield School that she founded with her husband Professor Bhaer at the conclusion of Part Two of Little Women. And Jo's Boys (1886) completed the "March Family Saga". Alcott made women's rights integral to her stories, and her fiction became her "most important feminist contribution" - even considering all the efforts Alcott made to help facilitate women's rights during her lifetime.
This carefully crafted ebook: "Little Women - Unabridged with the original illustrations by Frank T. Merrill (200 illustrations)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. This edition is unabridged and includes the original illustrations by Frank T. Merrill.
Little Women is a novel by Louisa May Alcott, published in two volumes in 1868 and 1869. The novel follows the lives, loves and tribulations of fours sisters growing up during the American Civil War. While their father serves in the conflict, the sisters-dutiful Meg, fiery Jo, gentle Beth, and fanciful Amy-are guided on a journey of growth and experience by their spirited mother. Little Women is the story of a loving and unconventional family welcoming life's joys and bravely facing life's sorrows. In part autobiographical, this is an important historical portrait of young women growing up in a post-war American society of strong traditions and modern freedoms.
Louisa May Alcott (1832 - 1888) was an American novelist best known as author of the novel Little Women and its sequels Little Men and Jo's Boys. She was an advocate of abolition, women's rights, and temperance.
This carefully crafted ebook: "Little Men - Unabridged with the original illustrations by Reginald B. Birch (includes Good Wives)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. This edition is unabridged and includes the original illustrations by Reginald B. Birch.
Little Men is a novel by Louisa May Alcott, first published in 1871. The novel reprises characters from Little Women and is considered the second book of an unofficial Little Women trilogy, which is completed with Alcott's 1886 novel Jo's Boys, and How They Turned Out: A Sequel to "Little Men". Little Men tells the story of Jo Bhaer and the children at Plumfield Estate School . Jo-now married to the good-natured Professor Bhaer, and with sons of her own-has become the unflappable matron of an extended family at Plumfield, a school the Bhaers have founded with Aunt March's legacy.
Louisa May Alcott's overwhelming success dated from the appearance of the first part of Little Women: or Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy, (1868) a semi-autobiographical account of her childhood years with her sisters in Concord, Massachusetts. Part two, or Part Second, also known as Good Wives, (1869) followed the March sisters into adulthood and their respective marriages.
Louisa May Alcott (1832 - 1888) was an American novelist best known as author of the novel Little Women and its sequels Little Men and Jo's Boys. She was an advocate of abolition, women's rights, and temperance.
This carefully crafted ebook: "Jo's Boys and How They Turned Out: A Sequel to "Little Men" (Unabridged)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.
This work is the third book in the Little Women trilogy by Louisa May Alcott, published in 1886. In the book Alcott returns to the familiar precincts of Plumfield. Ten years later, Jo's pupils have started to make their way in the world, and they find themselves tested: Josie longs to be an actress; Emil, now a sailor, is shipwrecked; Dan, out West, lands in prison; Nat, studying music in Germany, is tempted into living beyond his means. Faced with new obstacles, they look back on the lessons learned at home and begin to appreciate the real value of their Plumfield education.
Louisa May Alcott (1832 - 1888) was an American novelist best known as author of the novel Little Women and its sequels Little Men and Jo's Boys. She was an advocate of abolition, women's rights, and temperance.
This carefully crafted ebook: "Little Women (includes Good Wives) + Little Men + Jo's Boys (3 Unabridged Classics with over 200 original illustrations)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. This ebook contains 3 unabridged classic books with over 200 original illustrations by Frank T. Merrill and Reginald B. Birch in one ebook.
Louisa May Alcott (1832 - 1888) was an American novelist best known as author of the novel Little Women and its sequels Little Men and Jo's Boys.
Little Women and Good Wives, published in 1868 and 1869 respectively, is a story following the four March sisters and their friend Theodore "Laurie" Lawrence in Massachusetts in the 1800's. The four girls each exhibit individual flaws and much of the plot is concerned with their journey to correct themselves, always supporting each other in the end despite their numerous squabbles. Margaret "Meg" March is the eldest sister and at the beginning of the tale is very preoccupied with materialistic possessions, Josephine "Jo" March is a tomboy with a fiery temper, Elizabeth "Beth" March is shy and gentle and Amy, being the youngest March sister, is spoilt and therefore prone to temper tantrums. Little Women follows the sisters for about a year, but Good Wives skips forward in time regularly so that by the end they are all of adult age.
Little Men, or Life at Plumfield with Jo's Boys is a novel by American author Louisa May Alcott, first published in 1871. Little Men follows the adventures of Jo March and her husband Professor Bhaer as they try to make their school for boys a happy, comfortable, and stimulating place.
Jo's Boys was first published in 1886. The novel is the final book in the unofficial Little Women series. In it, Jo's "children," now grown, are caught up in real world troubles.
Les Quatre Filles du docteur March (titre original : Little Women) est un roman de la femme de lettres américaine Louisa May Alcott, publié en France pour la première fois en 1880.
| Aux États-Unis, pendant la Guerre de Sécession. En l'absence de leur père Pascal, pasteur nordiste engagé comme aumônier dans le conflit, quatre jeunes soeurs issues de la classe moyenne de la société font face aux difficultés de la vie quotidienne en ce temps de guerre : la raisonnable Margaret (surnommée Meg), l'intrépide Joséphine (surnommée Jo), la charitable Elisabeth (surnommée Beth) et l'orgueilleuse Amy. Elles vivent à Concord dans l'État du Massachusetts avec leur mère et leur fidèle domestique, Hannah. Autrefois riche, la famille March a été ruinée lorsque Mr. March avait aidé un ami dans ses affaires, ce qui avait entraîné la faillite. Malgré cela, la famille est heureuse et n'oublie pas d'aider plus pauvre qu'elle...|
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In "Lost in a Pyramid; or The Mummy's Curse" by Louisa May Alcott, Paul Forsyth and his fiancée Evelyn discover that taking souvenirs back from ancient places may not be the best idea. Paul returns from an expedition to Egypt with his risk-taking colleague Professor Niles with a box of seeds, which Evelyn takes a liking to. The problem is, the seeds were collected from the grave of a sorceress, who has vowed to take revenge on anyone disturbing her resting place. This classic ghost story from the late 19th century is one of the first mummy's curse narratives, providing plenty of otherworldly twists for the adventure-seeking reader.
B. J. Harrison started his Classic Tales Podcast back in 2007, wanting to breathe new life into classic stories. He masterfully plays with a wide array of voices and accents and has since then produced over 500 audiobooks. Now in collaboration with SAGA Egmont, his engaging narration of these famous classics is available to readers everywhere.
Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888) was an American writer of numerous beloved novels, short stories and poems. She was a feminist, and many of her stories are loosely based on her own life experiences. She is primarily known for her young adult fiction but also wrote gothic thrillers, albeit anonymously, and sensational stories under the pen name A.M. Barnard. One of her best-known works is "Little Women", a novel that has been turned into numerous film and television adaptations, such as the 1994 film Little Women with Winona Ryder as the protagonist Jo March.
Het bekendste werk van Louisa May Alcott is de reeks boeken die ze schreef over de zussen Meg, Jo en Beth. Deze zussen zijn losjes gebaseerd op Alcott zelf en haar eigen zussen. Onder moeders vleugels is het eerste deel uit deze trilogie, waarin de zussen van jonge meisjes veranderen in jonge vrouwen, die de overstap naar het volwassen leven maken.
In de latere delen, Op eigen wieken, De kostschool van meneer Beer en De wereld in, zien we de zussen volwassen worden en zelf kinderen krijgen, die vervolgens ook weer opgroeien. Aan het eind hebben de zussen zelf de rol die hun moeder in dit eerste boek heeft.
In Rozeknop keren we weer terug naar het weesmeisje Rosa, dat ook de hoofdrol speelde in Een nichtje met zeven neven. In dat boek lazen we hoe Rosa na het overlijden van haar ouders intrekt bij haar oom en tante, die al zeven kinderen hebben: alleen maar jongens.
In dit tweede deel is Rosa al wat ouder, en begint ze wat meer de wereld in te trekken. Ze leert de leuke en minder leuke kanten van het leven als een ontluikende volwassene kennen, compleet met allerlei verwikkelingen op liefdesgebied.
Jack en Janey zijn beste vrienden en ze wonen naast elkaar. Ze zijn altijd samen te vinden, en als het op een winterdag gesneeuwd heeft gaan ze een heuvel op om ervan af te sleeën. Maar het gaat mis. Zonneschijn na regen toont hoe de twee vrienden herstellen van zowel de schrik als hun verwondingen na het ongeluk. Met hulp van hun vrienden en hun moeders leren ze dat in elke nare gebeurtenis ook een wijze les kan zitten - en zo worden ze nog betere vrienden.
De kostschool van meneer Beer is het derde deel in de reeks van Louisa May Alcott over de zussen Jo, Meg en Beth. In dit deel volgen we de leerlingen op de school van het echtpaar Beer. De zoons van Jo gaan ook naar deze school.
Het gaat er op deze school niet zo streng aan toe als op andere scholen. De leerlingen moeten voor dieren zorgen en in de tuin werken, en krijgen veel vrijheid. Elke zaterdag is er een kussengevecht. Voor de kinderen is dit een prettige, speelse manier van leren, als is er ook wel eens ruzie.
De wereld in is het laatste deel in de boekenreeks die Louisa May Alcott schreef over de zussen Meg, Jo en Beth. In dit laatste deel volgen we net als in De kostschool van meneer Beer de zonen van Jo, die inmiddels ook volwassen zijn geworden en wegwijs raken in de wereld. De een gaat trouwen, een ander belandt in de gevangenis, de jongens vinden allerlei vormen van geluk en ellende op hun pad.
Alcott baseerde de zussen waar de reeks om draait losjes op haarzelf en haar eigen zussen, maar het is geen autobiografie. Vooral de eerste twee delen, Onder moeders vleugels en Op eigen wieken, waren zeer populair als jeugdboeken voor meisjes.
Op eigen wieken is het vervolg op Louisa May Alcotts meesterwerk Little Women, in het Nederlands uitgegeven als Onder moeders vleugels. In dat boek volgen we de zussen Alcott, die losjes zijn gebaseerd op de schrijfster zelf en haar drie zussen.
In Op eigen wieken zijn de jonge zussen uit het eerste deel opgegroeid. De kwesties waar ze mee worstelen hebben nu een ander karakter dan in hun kindertijd, en elk op hun eigen manier gaan de zussen om met het vinden van werk, een partner en het krijgen van kinderen.
Na Op eigen wieken volgen nog twee delen over de levens van de familie Alcott. Het verhaal is vele malen verfilmd en op de planken gebracht.
