Jo's Boys (1886)
Jo's Boys is a 1886 fiction book written by Louisa May Alcott.
Years have passed at Plumfield, the school Jo March built, and her boys have grown into young men making their way in the world. Nat pursues music at the conservatory, restless Dan returns from the California gold fields, and steady Tom weighs love against a sensible career. Louisa May Alcott closes her Little Women world with this 1886 sequel to Little Men, following the March children and their old classmates into adult troubles: work, courtship, loss, and the constant pull of home. Gentle, moral, and affectionate, it sends a beloved family off into their futures.
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What is Jo's Boys about?
Years have passed at Plumfield, the school Jo March built, and her boys have grown into young men making their way in the world. Nat pursues music at the conservatory, restless Dan returns from the California gold fields, and steady Tom weighs love against a sensible career. Louisa May Alcott closes her Little Women world with this 1886 sequel to Little Men, following the March children and their old classmates into adult troubles: work, courtship, loss, and the constant pull of home. Gentle, moral, and affectionate, it sends a beloved family off into their futures.
When was Jo's Boys published?
Jo's Boys was published in 1886.
Who made Jo's Boys?
Jo's Boys was written by Louisa May Alcott.
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Anyone attached to the March family should watch Greta Gerwig's Little Women, which brings Jo and her sisters to warm, vivid life on screen. And Anne of Green Gables, in its cherished television adaptations, offers the same tender coming-of-age spirit: a spirited girl, a close-knit household, and the small dramas of growing up in the nineteenth century.
Book series that follow one family from childhood into adulthood
Jo's Boys closes out Alcott's March family saga, following Nat, Dan and Tom out of Plumfield and into work, courtship and loss. Little Women follows the same sisters a generation earlier, Anne of Green Gables grows an orphan into a capable young woman, Little House on the Prairie keeps one pioneer family bound together through hardship, and The Outsiders watches a tougher set of boys come of age fast.