Homenets

by Louisa May Alcott, Mar Vidal (Translator)

Homenets, publicada originalment el 1871, reprèn els personatges de Donetes i Aquelles donetes (1868 i 1869), de l'escriptora nord-americana Louisa May Alcott.
La Jo Bhaer (Jo March de soltera) i el seu marit Fritz, pares de dos fills, viuen totalment dedicats a l'educació dels nois de l'escola de Plumfield, que són majoritàriament nois orfes que han crescut sense ordre ni disciplina, però, sobretot, sense l'afecte i la protecció d'una família. Ella és l'ànima d'aquesta atípica escola, on es permeten les guerres de coixins, es convida els alumnes a tenir cura del jardí i els animals, i se'ls anima a realitzar tot tipus d'experiments pel seu compte... A través d'aquestes experiències tan diverses, els nois, que al principi es mostren rebels i descurats, aniran madurant i aprendran a responsabilitzar-se dels seus actes i a expressar afecte cap als educadors.
Aquest és el tercer llibre de la sèrie de Donetes, que precedeix la novel·la que tanca el cicle: Els nois de Jo, del 1886.

544 pages, Hardcover

Published November 25, 2025

About the author

Louisa May Alcott was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet best known for writing the novel Little Women (1868) and its sequels Good Wives (1869), Little Men (1871) and Jo's Boys (1886). Raised in New England by her transcendentalist parents, Abigail May Alcott and Amos Bronson Alcott, she grew up among many well-known intellectuals of the day, including Margaret Fuller, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry David Thoreau, and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
Alcott's family suffered from financial difficulties, and while she worked to help support the family from an early age, she also sought an outlet in writing. She began to receive critical success for her writing in the 1860s. Early in her career, she sometimes used pen names such as A.M. Barnard, under which she wrote lurid short stories and sensation novels for adults that focused on passion and revenge.
Published in 1868, Little Women is set in the Alcott family home, Orchard House, in Concord, Massachusetts, and is loosely based on Alcott's childhood experiences with her three sisters, Abigail May Alcott Nieriker, Elizabeth Sewall Alcott, and Anna Bronson Alcott Pratt. The novel was well-received at the time and is still popular today among both children and adults. It has been adapted for stage plays, films, and television many times.
Alcott was an abolitionist and a feminist and remained unmarried throughout her life. She also spent her life active in reform movements such as temperance and women's suffrage. She died from a stroke in Boston on March 6, 1888, just two days after her father's death.

Reviews

[Marta Cava]

pensava que seria un bluf i una manera d'estirar el xiclet, però m'ha agradat molt, manté l'essència de les històries prèvies i sobretot, és més moderna i atrevida (excepte en algun moments puntuals) que la literatura infantil i juvenil d'avui dia. I no us mentiré: el tram final m'ha fet plorar una micona

[Mercè · Rating 4 out of 5]

Deliciosa continuació de Donetes; centrant-se en l'escola que funda la Jo March i el seu marit. No m'ha agradat tant com Donetes i Aquelles Donetes però si us agrada el estil narratiu d'aquelles novel·les, definitivament us el recomano.