Plumfieldin Pojat
1886
Ten years have passed since we last walked the grounds of Plumfield, and nothing is as it was, and everything is as it should be. Jo Bhaer, the wild March girl who once burned her hair in the attic, now presides over a transformed institution, her boys scattered across the world like seeds planted decades ago. Some have found success; others have stumbled. A sailor faces shipwreck, a musician confronts disappointment, and the rebellious Dan walks a darker path still. This is not the innocent school of Little Men, but something richer and stranger: a meditation on what happens when we let go of the people we love, and trust them to find their own way home. Alcott writes with clear eyes about the pain of watching children grow, the impossible gap between who we hoped they'd become and who they are. For anyone who grew up with Jo and her brothers, this is a reunion that aches in all the right places.
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“…the violin”
— Louisa May Alcott
“Mothers can forgive anything! Tell me all, and be sure that I will never let you go, though the whole world should turn from you.””
— Louisa May Alcott
“Men are always ready to die for us, but not to make our lives worth having. Cheap sentiment and bad logic.””
— Louisa May Alcott
“Better lose your life than your soul…””
— Louisa May Alcott
“Education is not confined to books, and the finest characters often graduate from no college, but make experience their master, and life their book. [Some care] only for the mental culture, and [are] in danger of over-studying, under the delusion . . . that learning must be had at all costs, forgetting that health and real wisdom are better.””
— Louisa May Alcott
“…books are always good company if you have the right sort. Let me pick out some for you.' And Mrs. Jo made a bee-line to the well-laden shelves, which were the joy of her heart and the comfort of her life.””
— Louisa May Alcott
“We don't choose our talents; but we needn't hide them in a napkin because they are not just what we want.””
— Louisa May Alcott
“I do like men who come out frankly and own that they are not gods.””
— Louisa May Alcott
“The scar will remain, but it is better for a man to lose both arms than his soul; and these hard years, instead of being lost, may be made the most precious of your lives, if they teach you to rule yourselves.””
— Louisa May Alcott
