Little Women

Written by Louisa May Alcott

Narrated by Abigail Rasmussen

When their father goes off to war, the March sisters find that they must band together to help their mother survive many hardships. Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy discover the value of work and service. They also have fun going on picnics, entertaining friends and preparing for the holidays. through the years, the girls grow closer as they experience life's many trials and joys. This amazing classic novel is guaranteed to hook readers with its American story.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Author's Republic
• Release date: Jan 19, 2017
• ISBN: 9781518940651

Louisa May Alcott

Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888) was a prolific American author known for her novel, Little Women, and its sequels, Little Men and Jo's Boys. She received instruction from several famous authors, including Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Nathaniel Hawthorne, and she is commonly considered to be the foremost female novelist of the Gilded Age.

Reviews for Little Women

[Lori Miles · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

I read it so many times as a young girl and watching the recent tv series made me realise I’d like to reread it as a adult. Therefore I Love this book, and better still it was free! It’s about the highs and lows of teenagers living in the 19th century, and the sacrifices they have to make coupled with the simple joys they experience. It was good reading, and it gave an insight how people lived in the 18 hundreds.

[Alexter black · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

This book is impress me bcz its story really unique.It is an incredible story and one of my favorite literature classics.and top order book this. It is a story with many emotions, it is really a story with many important events that marked our history. Thank you very much for the contribution. I love it!

[Md Imam Hossain · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

She is a very beautiful book. Wonderful book,I have gone through all the chapter of this book very clearly,
and this book made my mind so clam.this is a best book i have read so far.This book is very much important and influecive for every one to change their life and get success in every steps of their life.Greta Gerwig is such an amazing director! She stays true to the original by adding so much more detail than I could even imagine.

Saoirse Ronan, Timothée Chalamet, Emma Watson, James Norton, Meryl Streep, Laura Dern, Florence Pugh and Eliza Scanlen are such wonderful actors and actresses that brought the story to life.

this book has taught me many things.i highly recommend to every one to read this book. its is amazing the book.

[Sharuck Kanna · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Wow nice audiobook. It is really amazing. It is really interesting. Definitely you read again and again. Because this amazing classic novel attractive us. I read this audiobook twice. I love this story. I suggest for everyone to comr and read this audiobook. I highly recommend. Thank you so much.

[Tina Moody · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

I have read them repeatedly over the years. They always draws you in and make you feel like your living right there with the characters. I would highly recommend to anyone who loves the classics old and young. It has everything from romance to comedy and anyone who loves a long brilliant would love this! i would reccomend this book to anyone between 10 and 15 because it has quite alot of advanced vocablary. this book is the story for what it is like for most young women and really gave me some great life lessons because it is sort of like me! excellent book that really changes the way you think about things.

[Syed khan · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Gerwig has said that she found inspiration in Marmee’s shocking confession of anger to Jo. “I am angry nearly every day of my life,” she declares, after Jo has almost let her sister Amy drown in an icy pond. Gerwig’s is only the second adaptation ever to commit the incredible line to film (the first was Vanessa Caswill’s BBC version, from 2017). And the new film’s main innovation—its deconstructed chronology—is well-suited to reveal what Marmee and the girls might be angry about. When Gerwig cuts directly from Beth’s funeral to Meg’s wedding day (in the novel, these events do not occur in this order), the film makes a very broad point: marriage is a kind of death. The point is humorously underscored in smaller moments, too, in multiple scenes of sharp-witted middle-aged women barely suffering their foolish husbands. Laura Dern’s Marmee responds archly to various idiocies offered by her husband (the brilliantly cast Bob Odenkirk). But the satisfactions of archness are short-lived, and I left the movie feeling like Marmee got short shrift once again.

What’s missing is what the novel takes pains to reveal: a subtle account of the damages that Marmee has accrued across a lifetime of becoming and being a Marmee. In the novel, but not in Gerwig’s film, Marmee clarifies why her anger might come as a surprise to her daughters: “I’ve learned to check the hasty words that rise to my lips, and when I feel that they mean to break out against my will, I just go away for a minute, and give myself a little shake for being so weak and wicked.” The scene is not just about the expression, or existence, of righteous anger; it’s about the depressing processes through which mothers suppress that anger.

Once you tune into this wavelength, you can’t unhear it. Take, for example, the famous scene in which Jo returns home after selling her hair for money. The sisters are, as usual, center stage, clucking and exclaiming over Jo’s violation of her “one beauty.” But when the narration turns to Marmee, it marks for readers the extent to which we—like the girls—are not invited in to whatever is really going on inside of her: “Mrs. March folded the wavy chestnut lock, and laid it away with a short grey one in her desk. She only said, ‘Thank you, deary,’ but something in her face made the girls change the subject.”

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What did it feel like for Marmee to hold that hair in her hands? Did Jo’s youth and bravery remind Marmee of her own, now distant? How proud she must have felt, but also how failed: unable to change a world in which her daughters were forced to sell themselves in exchange for a modicum of power. Marmee, it is clear here, probably most hours of most days, wanted to ball up her fists and scream.

Marmee’s drama takes shape in a sort of narrative negative space: unspoken, skimmed over. But it is there, even if it’s hard to learn how to notice. Compared to the soft, knowing wryness of the contemporary Marmees (Susan Sarandon, Emily Watson, Laura Dern), or the prim, angelic ones of the mid-twentieth-century adaptations, Alcott’s representation of maternal anger feels like a miracle of insight. It comes out of nowhere and seeps in everywhere. Marmee is central but unknowable, cherished yet easy to ignore. She can’t be figured out because her experience of subjectivity does not dovetail with what the social world expects or wants from her, and she knows it.

Our culture’s sentimental attachment to stories of young women about to bloom is strong. Jo’s anger—at her own powerlessness, at her culture’s obsession with marriage, at others’ assumptions about what shape her life should take—is legible; Marmee’s is not. A subtext of “Little Women” is that the explosive potential of these four girls is not, and will not be, realized; this is why Marmee belongs at the heart of the story. Gerwig’s adaptation is too committed to the idea of Jo as a transformative feminist hero to plumb these depths. The story that Gerwig’s film wants us to own—the story that so many redemptive, individualist readings of the novel push us toward—is the one where there are survivors, singular women who somehow escape. I don’t think this was the story Alcott was telling.

“I am almost suffocated in this atmosphere of restriction and form,” Abigail May Alcott wrote in her journal in 1842. Her husband, Bronson Alcott, was home in Concord after a more than six-month trip to England. He had left Abigail alone with four girls under the age of twelve, in deep debt, and with no income. She struggled. Yet things did not get better when he returned with two friends, Charles Lane and Henry Wright, in tow. The three men were in the early days of planning what would come to be the nominally egalitarian, vegetarian commune Fruitlands, but their condescension toward women was keenly felt by Abigail. She describes how they silenced her inside her own home: “I seem frowned down into stiff quiet and peace-less order.”

It’s possible that Louisa’s most feminist act was not only the invention of the indelible Jo but rather the insistence that Marmee’s anger—both expressed and suppressed—should be a central part of this story about creativity, love, home, and world-making. When she was seventeen, Louisa wrote in her journal about finding a note from Abigail: “[Her letters] always encourage me; and I wish someone would write as helpfully to her, for she needs cheering up with all the care she has. I often think what a hard life she has had since she married—so full of wandering and all sorts of worry!”

Louisa never did become a Marmee. She was not wrong that writing and Marmee-dom were at difficult odds in the eighteen-sixties and seventies, and she’d spent a lifetime painfully observing her own mother’s struggle with anger, misrecognition, and powerlessness, in her marriage and in motherhood. Louisa made her choice, and I’ve always cheered her radical vision of womanly independence. Still, her novel remains as good a reminder as any that one of the central problems of human life—motherhood—is, has been, and always will be a creative wellspring, not only a story to overcome or leave behind. It makes me angry that this fact is still so hard to see.

[Keiser Alexander García · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

It is an incredible story and one of my favorite literature classics. It is a story with many emotions, it is really a story with many important events that marked our history. Thank you very much for the contribution. I love it!

[Doni zia · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

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[Ashok Baniya · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Wonderful book,I have gone through all the chapter of this book very clearly,
and this book made my mind so clam.this is a best book i have read so far.This book is very much important and influecive for every one to change their life and get success in every steps of their life.Greta Gerwig is such an amazing director! She stays true to the original by adding so much more detail than I could even imagine.

Saoirse Ronan, Timothée Chalamet, Emma Watson, James Norton, Meryl Streep, Laura Dern, Florence Pugh and Eliza Scanlen are such wonderful actors and actresses that brought the story to life.

this book has taught me many things.i highly recommend to every one to read this book.

[German Moreno · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Love this book, one of the best family stories from the time of war, I think it encourages good values ​​and customs in difficult situations, I highly recommend it as it can serve in educational matters

[Chrissy Porter · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Awesome book.one of the best book i have read.i have gone through all the chapters and lessons of this book.
after reading this book my behaviour on many thinking process,learning process has been changed and i feel like i know many things,this book is benificial for everyone .
Beautiful storytelling from start to finish.3.5 /5

Little Women is made with so much heart, love and enthusiasm both behind and in front of the camera that even the deeply sad scenes still fill you with joy and longing. Jo -Saoirse Ronan, Timothée Chalamet, meg- Emma Watson, James Norton, Meryl Streep, Laura Dern, Amy-Florence Pugh and beth- Eliza Scanlen are such wonderful actors and actresses that brought the story to life.

I have not read the book, however, I enjoyed the story and it made a good job to show the struggles of adolescence around love, dreams, desires and disappointments.

It is the classic story of the four march sisters growing learning about the world together. The story does revolve back & forth in a seven-year period, and at times it can be tricky to figure out where the story is.

I highly recommend this book to read.best book .

[Amara Miller · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

A great story about a family with sisters and a mother their survival life after their father death in war. As girls how much hard to live and survive in this society. This is a great American story which will encourage lot of mothers and girls to survive at bad time. Bad time is not forever it’s temporary. So we must patient and hard work at surviving time. I would recommend THIS nice story book.happy reading

[Carrie Goldstein · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

I fell in love with this book! Lovely characters and a touch of romance! HIGHLY recommend!

[sohel mamun · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

I read it so many times as a young girl and watching the recent tv series made me realise I’d like to reread it as a adult. Therefore I Love this book, and better still it was free! It’s about the highs and lows of teenagers living in the 19th century, and the sacrifices they have to make coupled with the simple joys they experience. It was good reading, and it gave an insight how people lived in the 18 hundreds.

[Jhon Harry · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Really Little Women book is a great book for me .its a very awesome book the hole book contain is a very good story . This book is very inspirational and life changing. Amazing content and can easily be appreciated by anyone. I love it.it is very useful audio book. The book was about a great history and this is really make my day. During quarantine it also helpful to gather knowledge and use the time properly. I love it.it is very useful audio book. I recommended everyone to try it

[jstu studio india · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

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[Deily Durand · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Es una gran historia, conmueve el corazón, nos llena de nostalgia, es algo que han vivido muchas mujeres, las mujeres siempre tienen mas fuerzas para las adversidades, nunca se nos acaba las fuerzas! somos invencibles! y es algo que heredamos siempre de nuestras madres!

[Mɗ Yʋŋʋs Moɭɭʌ · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

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[ENDRRONIL GHOSH · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Parents need to know that Louisa May Alcott's semi-autobiographical Little Women, originally published in 1868, is a lengthy, beloved American classic that tells the story of the four March sisters growing up in Boston during and after the Civil War, as they wait for their father to return home. Generations of readers have loved its vivid, relatable characters. However, the writing style is old fashioned and the story features outdated (but time-period-appropriate) gender roles. Religion plays an important role in the family, so there are many religious references.

[niyauj · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

First of all i would like to thanks to the author to write this type of book. Little Women is a very interesting when i start reading this book i get a little interest as i go next and next i get more and more deep interest and read till the end and i get deeply heart happiness. I advised to my friend and family to read this book and learn something interesting. Thanks to Louisa May Alcott.

[Abdul Karim · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

This is very nice book. I play this book and the content of the book is really awesome. Thank you for the book.

[Donovan Bailey · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

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[VISHNU VIJAY · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Really Little Women book is a great book for me .its a very awesome book the hole book contain is a very good story . This book is very inspirational and life changing. Amazing content and can easily be appreciated by anyone. I love it.it is very useful audio book. The book was about a great history and this is really make my day. During quarantine it also helpful to gather knowledge and use the time properly. I love it.it is very useful audio book.
Little Women is made with so much heart, love and enthusiasm both behind and in front of the camera that even the deeply sad scenes still fill you with joy and longing. Jo -Saoirse Ronan, Timothée Chalamet, meg- Emma Watson, James Norton, Meryl Streep, Laura Dern, Amy-Florence Pugh and beth- Eliza Scanlen are such wonderful actors and actresses that brought the story to life.

I have not read the book, however, I enjoyed the story and it made a good job to show the struggles of adolescence around love, dreams, desires and disappointments.

It is the classic story of the four march sisters growing learning about the world together. The story does revolve back & forth in a seven-year period, and at times it can be tricky to figure out where the story is.

I recommended everyone to try it

[jorge34 · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

es un gran libro fue un recomendacion de mi hermana,debo admirtir que me sorprendio muchisimo y les recomiedo su lectura,un libro fantastico lleno de intensidead literaria,que te atraparas para darte sin duda una de las mejores experiencias literias

[sabna reku · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

i really love this book..bcz The content was fine.. I believe if you are interested in stoicism there are better uses for your time.found this book most interesting. It was informative,
historic and also showed how one can practice it in this day and age which I was most interested in learning. If Florence Pugh wasn't already on my short list for best actress from her exhausting and sublime performance in MIDSOMMAR earlier this year, her turn as Amy in LITTLE WOMEN just shot her to the top of whatever list of good actors I don't actually keep. Sure Saoirse Ronan is great as always, and Laura Dern just won the Golden Globe for her supporting role...oh yeah, and...Hermyoney...was in the movie...too. But Pugh manages to turn the most objectively annoying character in the movie into a wonderfully complex study of sisterhood. If she were the only leg the movie had to stand on it would be entirely adequate. However director Greta Gerwig assembled an amazing cast including everyone's favorite twinkie emo boy Timothy Chalamet, and I couldn't believe I was looking at Bob Odenkirk from "Mr. Show" in a heartfelt Hollywood adaptation of a classic piece of semi-proto-feminist literature. i highly recommend to every one to read this book.

[sunu Dev · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Really Little Women book is a great book for me .its a very awesome book the hole book contain is a very good story . This book is very inspirational and life changing. Amazing content and can easily be appreciated by anyone. ..There’s a reason why Little Women, in print continuously since its first volume was published in 1868, has been such an enduring phenomenon, and that is Jo March. She’s passionately captured here by Saoirse Ronan, who reunites with Gerwig after starring in her directorial debut, Lady Bird (a film that, with its focus on mother-daughter relationships, female friendship and creative ambition, contains a notable thematic crossover with Little Women). Wildly imaginative, unfashionably ambitious and mutinously ungroomed, she has been the formative girl-crush for generations of wannabe writers with inky fingers and unravelling pigtails. Alcott’s alter ego, Jo hits that elusive sweet spot that makes her perennially relatable and contemporary. I recommended everyone

[javier carrasco · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

very good story of these girls Excellent book tremendous story I recommend that you listen to it until the end you will not regret it I loved this book its author is super great when reproducing this work of art tremendous artita tremendous writer I really recommend this wonderful book no one will regret know this story so really well embodied in this work of art I will listen to it as many times as I can I really liked the story I felt I was in it

[Sarah Shoshana David · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

Great book but amateur reader with poor delivery and diction. We need an actor.

[Hasan Siddique · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

I love this good book. Everybody Love this best book. i really love this book..bcz The content was fine.. I believe if you are interested in stoicism there are better uses for your time.found this book most interesting. It was informative,
historic and also showed how one can practice it in this day and age which I was most interested in learning

[Kelly Dorval · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

I loved it so much !!!! ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐