1890 edition of Little Men: Life at Plumfield with Jo's Boys by Louisa May Alcott.
Written by Louisa May Alcott. Various illustrators. 1890, Roberts Brothers, Boston.
Louisa May Alcott (1832 - 1888) was a formidable woman for her time, raised in respectable poverty in Concord, MA yet well-educated, along with her sisters, by strict but loving parents who were early participants in the Transcendentalist movement, along with Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson. She was an Abolitionist, a feminist, and a writer.
Little Men is the sequel to Little Women, and was followed by Jo's Boys, known as the Little Women Trilogy. In Little Men, Professor Bhaer and Jo found the Plumfield Estate School on property left to Jo by her Aunt March. The story reacquaints us with most of the characters from Little women, and introduces us to Nathaniel "Nat" Blake, an orphan with possibilities. Professor Bhaer and Jo run the school based on their philosophies of education and how children should be treated as individuals.
CHAPTER I: Nat
"Please, sir, is this Plumfield?" asked a ragged boy of the man who opened the great gate at which the omnibus left him.
"Yes; who sent you?"
"Mr. Laurence. I have got a letter for the lady."
"All right; go up to the house, and give it to her; she'll see to you, little chap."
"He spoke pleasantly, and the boy went on, feeling much cheered by the words. Through the soft spring rain that fell on sprouting grass and budding trees, Nat saw a large square house before him - a hospitable-looking house, with an old-fashioned porch, wide steps, and lights shining in many windows. Neither curtains nor shutters hid the cheerful glimmer; and, pausing a moment before he rang, Nat saw many little shadows dancing on the walls, heard the pleasant hum of young voices, and felt that it was hardly possible that the light and warmth and comfort within could be for a homeless "little chap" like him."
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