Little Men & Jo's Boys

Little Men &; Jo's Boys
ISBN: 9781840221763
Publication Date: 5 April 2009

The two American classics here together in one volume, Little Men and Jo's Boys, are worthy sequels to Little Women, one of the best-loved children's stories of all time, and its continuation, Good Wives.

In Little Men, Louisa May Alcott takes up the story of the everyday dramas and exploits of the naughty but easy-going boys at Plumfield, now a boarding-school run by Professor Bhaer and his lovable madcap wife Jo, the most fiery and freespirited of the four March sisters.

Jo's Boys revisits the one-time members of that 'wilderness of boys' ten years later when they are making their ways in the world with varying degrees of triumph and disaster.

About the Author

Louisa May Alcott wrote Little Women, a novel for young readers that's been popular since its appearance in 1868. Born in Pennsylvania, she's most closely associated with Boston and Concord, Massachusetts, where she grew up with the likes of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau, associates of her father, Transcendentalist philosopher (Amos) Bronson Alcott. A childhood of financial insecurity apparently made Louisa determined to be a success. She had a literary reputation after the 1863 publication of her experiences as a Civil War nurse (Hospital Sketches), but she made money in the 1860s writing potboilers and publishing them anonymously or pseudonymously. Her market-savvyLittle Women was based on her own experiences growing up (she's associated with the character Jo) and cemented her fame and fortune. Her other works include Good Wives (1869), Little Men (1871), Rose in Bloom (1876) and Jo's Boys (1886).