A small house in the Big Woods
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A small house in the Big Woods
14.99 €
"Little House in the Big Woods" is the first book of the famous autobiographical epic by American author Laura Ingles Wilder. Four-year-old Laura lives on the edge of the vast forests of Wisconsin with her sisters, her faithful dog Jack and her parents, the first settlers to develop the free lands of the western United States. The family's life is so harsh that a child of the twenty-first century might exclaim: How can you stand it all?! "If you go north, go for a day, a week, a month, you will see nothing but woods." You have to work hard for food, prepare in advance for the cold winter and beware of wild animals that roam around the house. But Daddy - the only man in the family - can do everything: cast bullets, hunt, plow, sow and harvest, smoke meat and play the violin wonderfully. And he tenderly loves his mother and his dear daughters. All the housework is done by a patient and caring mother: "Washing - on Monday, ironing - on Tuesday, darning - on Wednesday, churning butter - on Thursday, cleaning - on Friday, baking bread - on Saturday, resting - on Sunday. Children are brought up in religious austerity, under conditions of daily labor. And if the Ingleses happen to receive guests or visit neighbors, the strict principle: "Children should be seen but not heard. Moreover, the whole story from the first to the last page - a bright, joyful memory of a happy childhood, spacious world, loving relatives and kind neighbors, rare but bright and remembered for a lifetime of holidays. Thanks to the amazing artistic memory of the writer, her attention to people and things, the book is read easily, with lively interest, and the young reader has a natural desire to compare his own childhood with the childhood of Laura.
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