<p>The two American classics here together in one volume, <em>Little Men</em> and <em>Jo''s Boys</em>, are worthy sequels to <em>Little Women</em>, one of the best-loved children''s stories of all time, and its continuation, <em>Good Wives</em>. In <em>Little Men</em>, Louisa May Alcott takes up the story of the everyday dramas and exploits of the naughty but easy-going boys at Plumfield, now a boarding-school run by Professor Bhaer and his lovable madcap wife Jo, the most fiery and free-spirited of the four March sisters. <em>Jo''s Boys</em> revisits the one-time members of that ''wilderness of boys'' ten years later when they are making their ways in the world with varying degrees of triumph and disaster.</p>