Little Women

Classic Fiction · No. 4 — Four sisters inventing who they will become.

• Classic Fiction
• 39 min
• Ages 15–99
• 6 chapters

About this audiobook

Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy March grow up poor in money and rich in nearly everything else while their father is away at war. Guided by Marmee and befriended by the lonely rich boy next door, Laurie, each sister wrestles with her own flaw — vanity, temper, shyness, selfishness — through burned manuscripts, scarlet fever, first proposals, and the hardest honest 'no' in American literature, when Jo refuses Laurie. Beth's quiet death breaks and remakes the family; Jo's grief becomes her true writing; and the little women become themselves.

Why it's worth a listen

Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy March grow up poor in money and rich in almost everything else, each wrestling with her own flaw through burned manuscripts, first proposals, and one heartbreaking loss. It is warm and funny and unafraid of real sorrow, with Jo — writer, dreamer, refuser of the expected — at its blazing center. And it asks what growing up always asks: what may you trade away, and what should you never trade?

A question to keep

As you grow up, what may you trade away — and what should you never trade?

Based on the book by Retold from Louisa May Alcott, published by Emma's Library original retelling

Chapters

1. Four Voices by the Fire
2. Fire, Ice, and Golden Hair
3. The Shadow in the House
4. The Hardest Honest Word
5. Two Paths and a Quiet Tide
6. A Question to Keep