Little Women

De: Louisa May Alcott

Narrado por: Elizabeth Klett, Arielle Lipshaw, Amy Gramour, Bruce Pirie, David Lawrence, Kara Shallenberg, Karen Savage, Phil Chenevert, Tom Crawford

In this dramatic reading of Little Women, we follow the lives of four sisters–Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy March–as they embark on the journey from childhood to womanhood. The sisters live with their mother while their father fights in the American Civil War. The family, headed by their beloved mother Marmee, must struggle to make ends meet, with the help of their kind and wealthy neighbor, Mr. Laurence, and his high-spirited grandson Laurie.

Although Little Women was a novel for girls, it differed notably from the current writings for children, especially girls. The novel addressed three major themes: domesticity, work, and true love, all of them interdependent and each necessary to the achievement of its heroine’s individual identity. Little Women has been read as a romance, a quest, a family drama that validates virtue over wealth, and as a means of escaping that life by women who knew its gender constraints only too well.

Public Domain (P)2022 Engage Books

Great book, inconsistent but ok narration

Great, classic, optimistic book if a little simplistic at times.

The narration is done by a large cast. It’s mostly good but some are badly recorded and hard to understand and i really didn’t like some younger voices for small children. Overall not bad though.

Finally Listened To A Classic!! 😍

I’m so happy I finally got the “excuse” to sit down and read/listen to such a classic! (It was for my “March” (ha, get it? 😉; not even planned, I swear) book club meeting; I finished it a BIT early 😏.) I’ve seen 3 movies versions (the 1994 version with Winona Ryder, the 2019 one with Emma Watson (NOT as Jo . . . 😕), & more recently, the “modern one” in 2018 with Lucas Grabeel (Ryan from HSM) as Laurie (of all people 😅)), & all 3 of them were good, though I still like the Winona Ryder one the best, I think . . . I also read an abridged version of it (with pictures) when I was younger, but never actually read “the original”, as they say. So, I was happy to have finally read/listened to it! 😊 And I will say that some parts of it, I did not like very much; hence, why I give it 4 stars ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ in the end & not 5. BUT that may have just been me looking at it through a “2025 lens”, as they say . . . For example, when Meg is stuck dealing with the baby twins at home & “complains” that her husband seems distance, Marmee seems to put all the “blame” on Meg instead of “scolding” John for disappearing & not helping her with the babies! I was like, “Wait, what? I thought this was supposed to be a “feminist book”; why is Marmee not blaming John for “being distance”, too?”, but, again, that may just be me, my “problem” . . . Maybe I misinterpreted something . . . Also, the audio from audiobook was AWFUL 😣!! It sounded like it was from a recorded play where the “actors” didn’t have good mics or something . . . If I didn’t have the Kindle book to read along with, I probably wouldn’t have understood HALF of what was said! (That’s why I gave the “Performance” such a low rating compared to the “Story”.) Honestly, don’t know WHY it was SO bad, especially in this day & age! But, all in all, I’m glad to have read/listened to such a classic, finally! 😊👍🏻

Horrible production

I’m not sure if I don’t enjoy this novel, out of the production quality is just so poor that I couldn’t enjoy it. Not only was the recording poor quality but some of the voice actors were very novice and had an unnatural cadence.