Little Women

Written by Louisa May Alcott

Narrated by Erin Bateman

Listen to the beloved classic about strong familial love and the bonds of sisterhood in this InAudio presentation of Little Women by Louisa May Alcott.
When published in 1968, the world first fell in love with this semiautobiographical story of the March sisters, and to this day the classic story is beloved and frequently adapted for the stage and screen. Little Women tells the story of Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy March, sisters who love each other and work hard building their earnest lives in Massachusetts during the Civil War. The story follows their lives growing up together, working, going to school and navigating into adulthood. Along the way they face love and loss, trials and joys. The sisters dynamic personalities color their relationships and circumstances in unique ways, and help readers find common ground with the characters from another time and place. The charming writing and closeness of the sisters, as well as the timeless themes and emotions, make Little Women a classic for the ages.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Spotify Audiobooks
• Release date: May 1, 2020
• ISBN: 9781094244648

Louisa May Alcott

Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888) was an American novelist, poet, and short story writer. Born in Philadelphia to a family of transcendentalists—her parents were friends with Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry David Thoreau—Alcott was raised in Massachusetts. She worked from a young age as a teacher, seamstress, and domestic worker in order to alleviate her family’s difficult financial situation. These experiences helped to guide her as a professional writer, just as her family’s background in education reform, social work, and abolition—their home was a safe house for escaped slaves on the Underground Railroad—aided her development as an early feminist and staunch abolitionist. Her career began as a writer for the Atlantic Monthly in 1860, took a brief pause while she served as a nurse in a Georgetown Hospital for wounded Union soldiers during the Civil War, and truly flourished with the 1868 and 1869 publications of parts one and two of Little Women. The first installment of her acclaimed and immensely popular “March Family Saga” has since become a classic of American literature and has been adapted countless times for the theater, film, and television. Alcott was a prolific writer throughout her lifetime, with dozens of novels, short stories, and novelettes published under her name, as the pseudonym A.M. Barnard, and anonymously.