书名：Jo’s Boys  乔的男孩们
难度：Lexile蓝思阅读指数1210
作者：Louisa May Alcott露易莎·梅·奥尔科特
出版社名称：Bantam Classics
出版时间：1995
语种： 英文
ISBN：9780553214499
商品尺寸：10.1 x 2 x 17 cm
包装：简装
页数：322

Jo’s Boys《乔的男孩们》是美国作家路易莎·梅·奥尔科特“小妇人”系列的第三部，也是最后一部作品。在本书中，作者以学校中的莘莘学子为主角，架构出一本充满浪漫气息的青春小说。它描写了十四位少男、少女成长后的生活，故事背景为《小绅士》（或译《小男儿》）的十年之后，成长后的他们和她们，在不同的大学里经历青春、爱情，逐渐走向社会，开创自己的事业，其中有新闻记者、音乐家、青年实业家等。本书为Bantam Classics推出的英文版，内容无删减，体积小巧，方便携带。
Best known for the novelsLittle Women andLittle Men, Louisa May Alcott brought the story of her feisty protagonist Jo and the adventures and misadventures of the March family to an entertaining, surprising, and bittersweet conclusion inJo’s Boys. Beginning ten years after Little Men,Jo’s Boys revisits Plumfield, the New England school still presided over by Jo and her husband, Professor Bhaer. Jo remains at the center of the tale, surrounded by her boys—including rebellious Dan, sailor Emil, and promising musician Nat—as they experience shipwreck and storm, disappointment and even murder.
Popular for over a century, Alcott’s series still holds universal appeal with its powerful and affectionate depiction of family—the haven where the prodigal can always return, adversity is shared, and our dreams of being cherished, despite our flaws, come true. In this edition ofJo’s Boys, readers once again experience a treasured classic by one of America’s best-loved writers.

In the culmination of theLittle Women stories,Jo’s Boys depicts the girls and boys of Plumfield as young men and women who are facing problems and seeking happiness in life. The original twelve boys are scattered, but all come wandering back from the four corners of the earth to tell their stories and reminisce over the pleasures of the past.

路易莎·梅·奥尔科特（1832—1888），美国女作家，代表作Little Women《小妇人》。该书以奥尔科特的童年经历为基础创作，出版后打动了无数读者。随后，一批以她早年经历为题材的作品相继问世，包括Little Men《小男儿》（或译《小绅士》）（1871）、Jo’s Boys《乔的男孩们》（1886）。
Louisa May Alcott (November 29, 1832 - March 6, 1888) was an American novelist and poet, best known as the author of the novel Little Women, a semi-autobiographical tale, set in Alcott’s childhood home of Concord, Massachusetts. Throughout her lifetime, Louisa published over 30 books and collections of stories, including Little Men (1871), Jo’s Boys (1886).

CHAPTER 1 Ten Years Later
CHAPTER2 Parnassus
CHAPTER3 Jo’s Last Scrape
CHAPTER4 Dan
CHAPTER5 Vacation
CHAPTER6 Last Words
CHAPTER7 The Lion and the Lamb
CHAPTER8 Josie Plays Mermaid
CHAPTER9 The Worm Turns
CHAPTER10 Demi Settles
CHAPTER11 Emil’s Thanksgiving
CHAPTER12 Dan’s Christmas
CHAPTER13 Nat’s New Year
CHAPTER14 Plays at Plumfield
CHAPTER15 Waiting
CHAPTER16 In the Tennis-court
CHAPTER17 Among the Maids
CHAPTER18 Class Day
CHAPTER19 White Roses
CHAPTER20 Life for Life
CHAPTER21 Aslauga’s Knight
CHAPTER22 Positively Last Appearance

CHAPTER 1
TEN YEARS LATER
“IF ANYONE had told me what wonderful changes were to take place here in ten years, I wouldn’t have believed it,” said Mrs Jo to Mrs Meg, as they sat on the piazza at Plumfield one summer day, looking about them with faces full of pride and pleasure.
“This is the sort of magic that money and kind hearts can work. I am sure Mr Laurence could have no nobler monument than the college he so generously endowed; and a home like this will keep Aunt March’s memory green as long as it lasts,” answered Mrs Meg, always glad to praise the absent.
“We used to believe in fairies, you remember, and plan what we’d ask for if we could have three wishes. Doesn’t it seem as if mine had been really granted at last? Money, fame, and plenty of the work I love,” said Mrs Jo, carelessly rumpling up her hair as she clasped her hands over her head just as she used to do when a girl.
“I have had mine, and Amy is enjoying hers to her heart’s content. If dear Marmee, John, and Beth were here, it would be quite perfect,” added Meg, with a tender quiver in her voice; for Marmee’s place was empty now.
Jo put her hand on her sister’s, and both sat silent for a little while, surveying the pleasant scene before them with mingled sad and happy thoughts.
It certainly did look as if magic had been at work, for quiet Plumfield was transformed into a busy little world. The house seemed more hospitable than ever, refreshed now with new paint, added wings, well-kept lawn and garden, and a prosperous air it had not worn when riotous boys swarmed everywhere and it was rather difficult for the Bhaers to make both ends meet. On the hill, where kites used to be flown, stood the fine college which Mr Laurence’s munificent legacy had built. Busy students were going to and fro along the paths once trodden by childish feet, and many young men and women were enjoying all the advantages that wealth, wisdom, and benevolence could give them.
Just inside the gates of Plumfield a pretty brown cottage, very like the Dovecote, nestled among the trees, and on the green slope westward Laurie’s white-pillared mansion glittered in the sunshine; for when the rapid growth of the city shut in the old house, spoilt Meg’s nest, and dared to put a soap-factory under Mr Laurence’s indignant nose, our friends emigrated to Plumfield, and the great changes began.