{"product_id":"2940013461260","title":"Jo's Boys","description":"Chapter 1    Ten Years Later\u003cbr\u003e     Chapter 2    Parnassus\u003cbr\u003e     Chapter 3    Jo's Last Scrape\u003cbr\u003e     Chapter 4    Dan\u003cbr\u003e     Chapter 5    Vacation\u003cbr\u003e     Chapter 6    Last Words\u003cbr\u003e     Chapter 7    The Lion and the Lamb\u003cbr\u003e     Chapter 8    Josie Plays Mermaid\u003cbr\u003e     Chapter 9    The Worm Turns\u003cbr\u003e     Chapter 10   Demi Settles\u003cbr\u003e     Chapter 11   Emil's Thanksgiving\u003cbr\u003e     Chapter 12   Dan's Christmas\u003cbr\u003e     Chapter 13   Nat's New Year\u003cbr\u003e     Chapter 14   Plays at Plumfield\u003cbr\u003e     Chapter 15   Waiting\u003cbr\u003e     Chapter 16   In the Tennis-court\u003cbr\u003e     Chapter 17   Among the Maids\u003cbr\u003e     Chapter 18   Class Day\u003cbr\u003e     Chapter 19   White Roses\u003cbr\u003e     Chapter 20   Life for Life\u003cbr\u003e     Chapter 21   Aslauga's Knight\u003cbr\u003e     Chapter 22   Positively Last Appearance\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 1. TEN YEARS LATER\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'If anyone had told me what wonderful changes were to take place here in\u003cbr\u003eten years, I wouldn't have believed it,' said Mrs Jo to Mrs Meg, as they\u003cbr\u003esat on the piazza at Plumfield one summer day, looking about them with\u003cbr\u003efaces full of pride and pleasure.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'This is the sort of magic that money and kind hearts can work. I am\u003cbr\u003esure Mr Laurence could have no nobler monument than the college he so\u003cbr\u003egenerously endowed; and a home like this will keep Aunt March's memory\u003cbr\u003egreen as long as it lasts,' answered Mrs Meg, always glad to praise the\u003cbr\u003eabsent.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'We used to believe in fairies, you remember, and plan what we'd ask\u003cbr\u003efor if we could have three wishes. Doesn't it seem as if mine had been\u003cbr\u003ereally granted at last? Money, fame, and plenty of the work I love,'\u003cbr\u003esaid Mrs Jo, carelessly rumpling up her hair as she clasped her hands\u003cbr\u003eover her head just as she used to do when a girl.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'I have had mine, and Amy is enjoying hers to her heart's content. If\u003cbr\u003edear Marmee, John, and Beth were here, it would be quite perfect,' added\u003cbr\u003eMeg, with a tender quiver in her voice; for Marmee's place was empty\u003cbr\u003enow.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJo put her hand on her sister's, and both sat silent for a little while,\u003cbr\u003esurveying the pleasant scene before them with mingled sad and happy\u003cbr\u003ethoughts.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt certainly did look as if magic had been at work, for quiet Plumfield\u003cbr\u003ewas transformed into a busy little world. The house seemed more\u003cbr\u003ehospitable than ever, refreshed now with new paint, added wings,\u003cbr\u003ewell-kept lawn and garden, and a prosperous air it had not worn when\u003cbr\u003eriotous boys swarmed everywhere and it was rather difficult for the\u003cbr\u003eBhaers to make both ends meet. On the hill, where kites used to be\u003cbr\u003eflown, stood the fine college which Mr Laurence's munificent legacy had\u003cbr\u003ebuilt. Busy students were going to and fro along the paths once trodden\u003cbr\u003eby childish feet, and many young men and women were enjoying all the\u003cbr\u003eadvantages that wealth, wisdom, and benevolence could give them.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJust inside the gates of Plumfield a pretty brown cottage, very like\u003cbr\u003ethe Dovecote, nestled among the trees, and on the green slope westward\u003cbr\u003eLaurie's white-pillared mansion glittered in the sunshine; for when the\u003cbr\u003erapid growth of the city shut in the old house, spoilt Meg's nest, and\u003cbr\u003edared to put a soap-factory under Mr Laurence's indignant nose, our\u003cbr\u003efriends emigrated to Plumfield, and the great changes began.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThese were the pleasant ones; and the loss of the dear old people was\u003cbr\u003esweetened by the blessings they left behind; so all prospered now in the\u003cbr\u003elittle community, and Mr Bhaer as president, and Mr March as chaplain\u003cbr\u003eof the college, saw their long-cherished dream beautifully realized. The\u003cbr\u003esisters divided the care of the young people among them, each taking\u003cbr\u003ethe part that suited her best. Meg was the motherly friend of the young\u003cbr\u003ewomen, Jo the confidante and defender of all the youths, and Amy the\u003cbr\u003elady Bountiful who delicately smoothed the way for needy students, and\u003cbr\u003eentertained them all so cordially that it was no wonder they named her\u003cbr\u003elovely home Mount Parnassus, so full was it of music, beauty, and the\u003cbr\u003eculture hungry young hearts and fancies long for.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe original twelve boys had of course scattered far and wide during\u003cbr\u003ethese years, but all that lived still remembered old Plumfield, and came\u003cbr\u003ewandering back from the four quarters of the earth to tell their various\u003cbr\u003eexperiences, laugh over the pleasures of the past, and face the duties\u003cbr\u003eof the present with fresh courage; for such home-comings keep hearts\u003cbr\u003etender and hands helpful with the memories of young and happy days. A\u003cbr\u003efew words will tell the history of each, and then we can go on with the\u003cbr\u003enew chapter of their lives.","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47079501168880,"sku":"2940013461260","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013461260_p0.jpg?v=1763581590","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013461260","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}