
Good Wives
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.
Add to Cart failed.
Please try again later
Add to Wish List failed.
Please try again later
Remove from wishlist failed.
Please try again later
Adding to library failed
Please try again
Follow podcast failed
Please try again
Unfollow podcast failed
Please try again
LIMITED TIME OFFER
3 months free
Offer ends July 31, 2025 at 11:59PM PT.
Pick 1 audiobook a month from our unmatched collection.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, Originals, and podcasts.
Access exclusive sales and deals.
Premium Plus auto-renews for $14.95/mo after 3 months. Cancel anytime.
Buy for $17.16
No default payment method selected.
We are sorry. We are not allowed to sell this product with the selected payment method
Pay using card ending in
By confirming your purchase, you agree to Audible's Conditions of Use, License, and Amazon's Privacy Notice. Taxes where applicable.
-
Narrated by:
-
C. M. Hébert
Though often classified a children's book, Good Wives, with its lifelike characters and situations, has entertained millions of adults. The delightful adventures of the March children still possess great power to inspire listeners.
(P)1996 Blackstone Audio IncListeners also enjoyed...




















People who viewed this also viewed...


good story
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Star pronunciation & performance
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
However, this is the same story, minus the first 1/3 of “Little Women”. It does not continue 3 years later, nor does it have any new writing from the first book. Unless you haven’t read “Little Women” in a while, and want a slightly shorter version, don’t bother with this title.
Instead, go on to listen to “Little Men” and “Joe’s Boys”, which completes the trilogy wonderfully! Thankfully, this book was free with Audible Plus.
Repeat of “Little Women” novel
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
That Mrs. March was a wise woman, no one would dispute. It turns out that she was an even wiser mother-in-law. She kept aloof from her married daughters' troubles unless asked and then horrors of horrors didn't always take the daughter's side; didn't always give the advice the daughter wanted to hear. Oh, if there were more in-laws of her stamp today, there would be fewer divorces. Momma's little Johnny and little Mary all grown up and married aren't always right.
In many ways, this is a how-to book written lightly and humorously but tackling real issues facing couples that are as real today as then. Among the many fine suggestions are that spouses should take care themselves; to recharge themselves, give themselves a break. Take care of the children of course, but not to the exclusion of taking care of one's spouse's needs. Balance is the advice. Your spouse is your partner: 1880 advice which doesn't seem dated to my 2009 ears.
Oh yes, Jo falls in love; more like stumbles in it; plops in it; does an indecorous belly busting flop. It was a delicious romance that only Jo March could have. Like Jane Austen wrote of Marianne Dashwood, "She could never love by halves." Neither could Jo.
Poor Jo, Couldn't Even Lose Her Heart Decorously
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Little Women. Abridged
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
At the end of Little Women, Meg and John were married and had their twins, Laurie had finished college, taken his Grand Tour and met Amy in Europe and married her, and Beth had died. Jo had been to New York, met her Professor, as well as published her first book.
Perhaps that's no big deal, but when you're expecting to start well after the previous story, but instead, start out with a lengthy recap of a large portion of Little Women, it just seemed like a serving of leftovers.
The narrator made me sleepy. Maybe I've just outgrown this type of book, but I never had even a flicker of interest. I gave up after just a few chapters.
Disappointing
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.