A Merry Christmas, Louisa May Alcott
A Merry Christmas, Louisa May Alcott
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A Merry Christmas
An Excerpt from Little Women

Author: Louisa May Alcott

Narrator: Susie Berneis

Unabridged: 26 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/26/2017

Synopsis

A Merry Christmas: An Excerpt from Little Women is the famous Christmas scene (Chapter Two) from the immortal Louisa May Alcott novel, Little Women. The four March sisters, Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy and their mother, celebrate Christmas without their father who has gone to war. Newly impoverished after father's financial loss, the sisters work outside the home for money to support the family, and rediscover the true meaning of Christmas in the process.

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 Christine on December 28, 2020

4.5 stars rounded to 4 stars This is a compilation of seven of Louisa May Alcott’s best Christmas stories. I did skip one of them, A Merry Christmas, as it is a chapter out of Little Women, which I plan to read in 2021. This holiday season I decided I was more in the mood for historical stories, espe......more

Goodreads review by Sharon on November 11, 2022

In keeping with the 19th century tradition of writing, Alcott was an unabashed sentimentalist. She wrote to entertain, but also to change the world that she lived in. Her downtrodden heroines were often pitiable, but good and pure. She didn't mix the attributes of her characters; if she wanted you t......more

Goodreads review by Magrat on December 26, 2015

[URL not allowed] Este volumen recoge varios cuentos navideños de la autora de 'Mujercitas' (de hecho incluye el capítulo navideño de dicho libro), y yo lo he disfrutado como una niña. Es la lectura perfecta para navidad, cargada de personajes bondadosos, esperaza dentro de la p......more

Goodreads review by Elisa on December 08, 2020

A MERRY CHRISTMAS AND OTHER STORIES by Louisa May Alcott is a collection of seven short Christmas stories written by Alcott. I was a little scared to start reading them, because I LOVED Little Women, Good Wives, Little Men and Jo's Boys, but could I love all of her writing THAT much?! It seemed impo......more

Goodreads review by midnightfaerie on December 12, 2022

Reviews for each of the short works within this book Gwen's Adventure in the Snow Rosa's Tale What Polly Found in her Stocking A Hospital Christmas A Country Christmas Mrs. Podgers' Teapot Peace From Heaven The Quiet Little Woman A Christmas Dream and How it came True A song Kate's Choice Bertie's Box What love......more

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