Nat begins a musical career in Europe that takes him away from Daisy, only to fall in with a frivolous crowd and unintentionally lead a young woman on, whom he then does not marry. He also falls in love with a person far beyond his reach, Jo's niece and Amy's daughter Bess. Dan seeks his fortune in the West and ends up in jail. Professor Bhaer's nephew Emil is now a sailor, and takes off on his first voyage as second mate and shows his true strength when he is shipwrecked and the captain badly injured. Sections of Jo's Boys follow the travels of former students who have deep emotional ties to Plumfield and the Bhaers. Tommy becomes a medical student to impress childhood sweetheart Nan, but after 'accidentally' falling in love with and proposing to Dora, he joins his family business. Dolly and George are college students dealing with the temptations of snobbery, arrogance, self-indulgence and vanity.

The book takes place ten years after Little Men. The book mostly follows the lives of Plumfield boys who were introduced in Little Men, particularly Tommy, Emil, Demi, Nat, Dan, and Professor Bhaer and Jo's sons Rob and Teddy, although the others make frequent appearances as well. In it, Jo's 'children,' now grown, are caught up in real world troubles. The novel is the final book in the unofficial Little Women series. Jo's Boys, and How They Turned Out: A Sequel to 'Little Men' is a novel by American author Louisa May Alcott, first published in 1886. Published in 1868, Little Women is set in the Alcott family home, Hillside, later called the Wayside, in Concord, Massachusetts and is loosely based on Alcott's childhood experiences with her three sisters. Barnard, under which she wrote novels for young adults. Early in her career, she sometimes used the pen name A. She began to receive critical success for her writing in the 1860s. Alcott worked to help support the family from an early age. Raised by her transcendentalist parents, Abigail May and Amos Bronson Alcott in New England, she grew up among many of the well-known intellectuals of the day such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry David Thoreau.

Louisa May Alcott (NovemMarch 6, 1888) was an American novelist and poet best known as the author of the novel Little Women (1868) and its sequels Little Men (1871) and Jo's Boys (1886). She bought the home for her sister Anna Alcott Pratt in 1877, though she moved in as well in the 1880s. Louisa May Alcott wrote the novel while living at the Thoreau-Alcott House on Main Street in Concord, Massachusetts.

Illustrations in advertisements at the back.

I ragazzi di Jo by Louisa May Alcott