Piccoli uomini (1871)

3.5 stars
For my full, non-spoiler review: https://christianlovingbooks.blogspot.com/2020/02/little-men-review.html ( )

2019 review: I want to write a paper on the educational theory in this book. Too bad the system wouldn't allow the experiment. ;)

That being said, one can see Alcott's politics showing. I absolutely loved her comments regarding the equality of women, spinsters, etc. And I wonder if this is a larger reaction to her time than I thought at first. After all, this is post-Civil War trauma here and we see a lot of poverty and homelessness and orphan-esque characters. Interesting to look at, but don't have the resources to study it... quite yet. ( )

Adaptación abreviada para niños - Ilustrada

Charming amusing,tiny bit too much moralising for our tastes nowadays but nice light mostly happy read.Nothing really to do with Little Women ...all about the group of lads and two girls at a school.... ( )

A very enjoyable reread, although it read as if new fifty-five years on. Once again I preferred this to [Little Women].
This book focuses on Jo, now married and running a home, alongside her husband, for orphaned boys, while raising her own two young ones.
the antics and capers of the boys is entertaining. The setting is somewhat more wholesome , I am sure, than modern day equivalents. ( )