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Little Women

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Little Women

By: Louisa May Alcott
Narrated by: Emily Bauer, Laura Dern, Lauren Fortgang, Allison Hiroto, Carly Robins, Suzanne Toren
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Hollywood icon Laura Dern breathes new life into Louisa May Alcott’s classic coming-of-age tale that follows the lives of four sisters against a backdrop of the American Civil War. This autobiographical novel takes place in and around the girls’ New England home.

This great American novel demonstrates Alcott's extraordinary talent at portraying the joys and struggles of family life in an unforgettable way. Generations of people - young and old, male and female - have fallen in love with the March sisters. This classic of young adult fiction transcends genre, gender, and class with its examination of personal quests, societal restrictions, family ties, and the end of innocence.

This new audio original dramatisation of Little Women stars a full cast led by two-time Academy Award-nominee, four-time Golden Globe-winner, and Emmy winner Laura Dern (Little Women, Big Little Lies, Jurassic Park), along with veteran narrators Suzanne Toren, Lauren Fortgang, Allison Hiroto, Emily Bauer, and Carly Robins.

Public Domain (P)2019 Audible, Ltd
Audio Performances & Dramatizations Classics Funny Feel-Good Heartfelt American Literature
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About the Performer

Since her breakout role in David Lynch’s 1986 classic, Blue Velvet, Dern has astounded audiences and critics alike as Rose in Rambling Rose, Ellie Sattler in Steven Spielberg’s Jurassic Park, Bobbi in Wild, and most recently, as the rage-fueled Renata Klein in Big Little Lies. In Audible’s Little Women, Dern narrates as Louisa May Alcott, bringing together a cast of perennial audio favorites, including Suzanne Toren (Pulitzer Prize winner, The Overstory by Richard Powers), Lauren Fortgang (I Thought It Was Just Me by Brené Brown), Allison Hiroto (1Q84 by Haruki Murakami), Emily Bauer (The Baby-Sitters Club by Ann M. Martin) and Carly Robins (All The Lovely Pieces by J.M. Winchester), among others.

About the Performer

Lauded as a prolific narrator by the Audiobook Publishers Association, Emily Bauer has a passion for truthful, honest storytelling and creating memorable characters across all genres. The recipient of multiple AudioFile Earphones, Listen-Up Awards, and Publishers Weekly Starred Reviews, Emily is also well-known for her animation work on shows such as Pokémon, Clifford the Big Red Dog, and Wallykazam!, and has done hundreds of commercials and jingles. Emily has narrated more than 200 audiobooks, including the InCryptid series by Seanan McGuire, the Razorland series by Anne Aguirre, and Life As We Knew It from the Last Survivors series by Susan Beth Pfeffer.

About the Performer

Lauren Fortgang is an NYC-based actor regularly working as an audiobook narrator for a vast roster of publishers, including Audible Studios, Hachette, Penguin Random House, Macmillan, Scholastic, and Blackstone Publishing. She's voiced hundreds of titles, including works by James Patterson, Joan Didion, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Candace Bushnell, Ann M. Martin, R. L. Stine, and Brené Brown. Lauren is a winner of both an Audie Award and multiple Earphones Awards whose work has been recognized by AudioFile magazine, the Audio Publishers Association (APA), the American Library Association (ALA), and Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA), School Library Journal, Library Journal, USA Today, Market Watch, Bustle, Forbes, and Publishers Weekly.

About the Performer

Allison Hiroto is an actor, musician, and voice-over artist. Her voice-over work ranges from commercials to audiobooks, and she is an AudioFile Earphones Award winner and Audie nominee. As an actor, Allison is a member of La MaMa’s Great Jones Repertory Company, Loco 7 Dance Puppet Theatre, Yara Arts Group, and NYU's First Look Theatre Company. She has performed all over the world, including London, Taipei, Toronto, Bogota, Zagreb, and the Venice Biennale. Allison is also a grant recipient of the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s Creative Engagement Award.

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Carly Robins is an NYC-based actress and voice-over artist. Having narrated more than 500 audiobooks, she works regularly with a variety of publishers and production houses, including Audible Studios, Hachette, Harper Collins, Macmillan, Blackstone Publishing, Simon & Schuster, Dreamscape, Tantor, and Brilliance. Audible recognized her work on its 2018 Romance Audiobook of the Year, The Kiss Quotient by Helen Hoang. In addition, her work has been recognized with starred reviews in Library Journal and Booklist, featured in USA Today, and highlighted in AudioFile and Audible's "Best of" lists. Carly can be heard on video games, commercials, animation, and more, as well as voicing the character Wicke on Pokémon. She has performed for 10 years in the NYC area and has written and produced her own work for stage and screen.

About the Performer

Suzanne Toren has appeared in works by acclaimed playwrights from Shakespeare and Moliere to Arthur Miller and Neil Simon, on Broadway (Goodbye, Fidel, starring Jane Alexander), off-Broadway (Westside Arts: A Shayna Maidel and From Door to Door; Castillo Theatre: Yiddish Death of a Salesman), and in regional theaters throughout the country (Paper Mill Playhouse: Great Expectations and A Tale of Two Cities; Philadelphia Drama Guild: A View from the Bridge; Pennsylvania Stage Company: Brighton Beach Memoirs; Syracuse Stage: The Seagull). In addition, she is an award-winning narrator (including, several times, "Narrator of the Year") of around 1,000 audiobooks. In 2019, she was honored with a Golden Voice Award from AudioFile for her "career achievements and invaluable contributions to the world of audiobooks."

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Great version

This is a wonderful classic and the cast of this reading did a fantastic job.

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Amazing production of a Classic!

All the characters are meticulously rendered to bring to life Louisa May Alcott’s treasured story! Satisfying and inspiring!

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Excellent story, cast and performance

Excellent story, cast and performance
Not just a children’s book - a very uplifting and touching story.

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Fabulous!!

I couldn’t be happier to have given this book a chance; I thought That watching the movies were enough but thanks to the wonderful narration I was able to create the images of my own version of this wonderful story .

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Highly recommend.

I love this book best audio ever best cast ever I really enjoyed it 🥰

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Very enjoyable, but...

I wish it had been unabridged, and the girls voices were all pretty similar. It was difficult to tell them apart for the first few hours.

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I have loved this book forever

I have never read the book but have watched every version of the book. I always loved it, but thanks to audible I have now read it. It was as good as I was thinking.

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Fantastic!

An expert rendition of a timeless and heartwarming
classic. This is one of those rare and precious “I-can’t-stop-listening” audiobooks.

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Wonderful production!

I loved re-experiencing this cherished classic. Audible dramatizations are always a pleasure to listen to again-and-again.

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Absolutely Beautiful

This is one of my favorite stories of all time. I praise this production of little women and encourage everyone to take the time to listen! Thank you for producing this beautiful rendition.

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