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The book begins 10 years after the end of "Little Men" and follows the lives of the Plumfield boys as they grow up and begin their forays into the world. Childhood friends become flirtatious young men and women, encountering the trouble of the adult world. This novel, along with the preceding books in Alcott's series are highly autobiographical, featuring characters paralleling Alcott's life.
Titles in the series (3)
- Little Women
1
Originally published in two volumes in 1868 and 1869, "Little Women" is a coming-of-age novel by American author Louisa May Alcott. Set in New England, "Little Women" follows the March sisters: Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy, who live with their mother during the Civil War. After their father falls ill, Beth contracts scarlet fever, and their family suffers much financial hardship. In the end, the March sisters are able to build happy lives for themselves. "Little Women" is loosely based on the lives of the author and her three sisters and scholars classify it as an autobiographical or semi-autobiographical novel. The novel was an immediate commercial and critical success.
- Little Men
2
Published in 1871, "Little Men" is generally regarded as the second book in Louisa May Alcott's Little Women series. following the success of "Little Women" in 1868, which portrayed the fortunes of the March family. In "Little Men", the March girls are grown. Jo and her husband, Mr. Bhaer, run a boarding school for young boys. The book recounts the adventures, escapades, and lessons learned by the thirteen young boys and two little girls who inhabit Plumfield, the Bhaer’s home. "Little Men" is, like Alcott's other books in the series, based on some of the events in her own life. The “March Family Saga” as the books came to be known was semi-autobiographical in nature. The character of Jo March was based on Alcott herself and many of the episodes in the books are based on real happenings at the family home she shared with her parents and sisters in Concord, Massachusetts.
- Jo's Boys
3
"Jo's Boys" is the third book in Louisa May Alcott's Little Women trilogy, published in 1886. The book begins 10 years after the end of "Little Men" and follows the lives of the Plumfield boys as they grow up and begin their forays into the world. Childhood friends become flirtatious young men and women, encountering the trouble of the adult world. This novel, along with the preceding books in Alcott's series are highly autobiographical, featuring characters paralleling Alcott's life.
Louisa May Alcott
Louisa May Alcott was a 19th-century American novelist best known for her novel, Little Women, as well as its well-loved sequels, Little Men and Jo's Boys. Little Women is renowned as one of the very first classics of children’s literature, and remains a popular masterpiece today.
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