Little Women

Unabridged
Author: Louisa May Alcott
Narrator: Rebecca Burns
Genres: Children's, Fiction, Literature, Classics, Classics
Publisher: Tantor Media
Date: April 2005
Length: 17 hours, 30 minutes
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Formats:
  • CD

Overview

Little Women is the story of a wife and her four daughters living in genteel poverty in the environs of Boston while the father is away as a chaplain in the Union Army during the Civil War.

So natural are the actions and dialogue of the charming Meg, Jo, Beth & Amy - that even today "Little Women" is readable without a sense of Victorian stiffness.

This heartwarming story is Louisa May Alcott's masterpiece. She was born in German town Pennsylvania in 1832. Before becoming an author, she was a nurse at the Union hospital in Georgetown during the Civil War. She died in 1888.

Lots Duncan says of "Little Women": "It speaks directly to the hearts of people of any generation who know what it's like to be part of a caring family".