Jo's Boys: The Final Little Women Novel and Sequel to Little Men

Jo's Boys: The Final Little Women Novel and Sequel to Little Men - Paperback

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Jo's Boys: The Final Little Women Novel and Sequel to Little Men

Jo's Boys: The Final Little Women Novel and Sequel to Little Men - Paperback

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Book Overview

Jo's Boys is Louisa May Alcott's concluding novel in the beloved Little Women sequence, following the children of Plumfield as they move from schoolroom innocence into adult choice, work, love, disappointment, and moral responsibility. Set a decade after Little Men, the novel returns to Jo March Bhaer and Professor Bhaer's progressive school, where the boys and girls they have guided must now make their own way in the wider world.

Alcott brings together domestic fiction, coming-of-age narrative, family drama, and nineteenth-century moral storytelling with the warmth and clarity that made the March family one of the most enduring creations in American literature. Nat, Dan, Demi, Tommy, Daisy, Nan, Bess, and Josie each face a different test of character, ambition, loyalty, and self-command, while Jo watches the next generation struggle toward useful, honest adulthood. Read alongside Little Women and Little Men, Jo's Boys offers both a satisfying continuation and a reflective close to Alcott's classic family saga.

ISBN9781617204777
Author Louisa May Alcott
PublisherSMK Books
GenreChildren
FormatPaperback
PublishedDecember 2011
LanguageENG- English
Pages228
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceTeens & young adults
Print SizeStandard Print

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About Louisa May Alcott

Louisa May Alcott was born in Pennsylvania, in 1832, the second of four daughters. After a period of serving as an army nurse, she published Hospital Sketches in 1863, followed by Gothic Romances and lurid thrillers. In 1868-9, she published Little Women, which proved so popular that it was followed by two sequels and several other novels. She died in 1888. Elaine Showalter is the author of the groundbreaking A Literature of Their Own and editor of Little Women for Penguin Classics.

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