A Hospital Christmas

Name: A Hospital Christmas
Brand: Dreamscape Media
Availability: InStock
Author: Louisa May Alcott
ISBN: 9781666593419

Author: Louisa May Alcott

Narrator: Susie Berneis

Unabridged: 49 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Dreamscape Media

Published: 09/26/2017

Categories: Fiction, Classic, Literary Fiction, Seasonal Fiction

Synopsis

In A Hospital Christmas a Civil War-era hospital is the setting for a Christmas story about caring for others, thinking positively and how sharing can make Christmas meaningful for those who have little.

About 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.

About Susie Berneis

Susie Berneis is a versatile voiceover artist with numerous narration credits to her name. She has an ear for dialect and a love for the process of developing characters, which has been cultivated through her twenty-plus years of experience as a community and regional stage actress. Based in Ann Arbor (home of the University of Michigan, where she received her BA in English and theatre), she now takes great joy in playing all the characters she encounters in her narration.

Reviews

Goodreads review by midnightfaerie on October 19, 2022

A heartfelt but sad Christmas story that takes place in a hospital. Mrs. Hale has many patients she administers to and many colorful characters emerge. The most notable are Sam, a scrooge of a patient that ends up changing his ways and handing out gifts from a box of presents he received, and Joe, a......more

Goodreads review by Mikyla on January 23, 2023

A short story recording the lives of the soldiers and nurses in a hospital during wartime. Their humility and care for one another is heartwarming, even during the saddest of times. This is a beautiful, short read, especially during the Christmas season.......more