Little Women

An Audible Original Drama

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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.

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Little Women
By:Louisa May Alcott
Narrated by:Emily Bauer, Laura Dern, Lauren Fortgang, and others

"I will never forgive you."

Little Women
By:Louisa May Alcott
Narrated by:Emily Bauer, Laura Dern, Lauren Fortgang, and others

"I don’t want any secrets."

Little Women
By:Louisa May Alcott
Narrated by:Emily Bauer, Laura Dern, Lauren Fortgang, and others

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"I will never forgive you."

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Meg March - The oldest March sister. Responsible and kind, Meg mothers her younger sisters. She has a small weakness for luxury and leisure, but the greater part of her is gentle, loving, and morally vigorous.

Josephine March - The protagonist of the novel, and the second-oldest March sister. Jo, who wants to be a writer, is based on Louisa May Alcott herself, which makes the story semi-autobiographical. Jo has a temper and a quick tongue, although she works hard to control both. She is a tomboy, and reacts with impatience to the many limitations placed on women and girls. She hates romance in her real life, and wants nothing more than to hold her family together.

Beth March - The third March daughter. Beth is very quiet and very virtuous, and she does nothing but try to please others. She adores music and plays the piano very well.

Amy March - The youngest March girl. Amy is an artist who adores visual beauty and has a weakness for pretty possessions. She is given to pouting, fits of temper, and vanity; but she does attempt to improve herself.

Marmee - The March girls’ mother. Marmee is the moral role model for her girls. She counsels them through all of their problems and works hard but happily while her husband is at war.

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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-fuelled 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, Lauren Fortgang, Allison Hiroto, Emily Bauer and Carly Robins 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 Golden 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, Blackstone Publishing, and beyond. 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 both an Audie Award and multiple-Earphones Award winner 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 Publisher's 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 Earphone 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.

About the performer

Carly Robins is an NYC based actress and voice over artist. Having narrated over 500 audiobooks she works regularly with a vast roster of publishers, production houses, and independent authors such as Audible Studios, Hachette, Harper Collins, Macmillan, Blackstone Publishing, Simon and Schuster, Dreamscape, Tantor, Brilliance and more. Audible awarded her Romance Audiobook of the Year 2018, for her work on The Kiss Quotient by Helen Hoang. Her work has been recognized with starred reviews in Library Journal and Booklist and has been featured in USA Today, and ‘the best of’ for AudioFile Magazine and Audible. She won a SOVAS award for her participation in Nevertheless We Persisted: Me Too. Carly can be heard on video games, promos, commercials, animation and ES as well as voicing the character Wicke on Pokémon. She has performed for ten 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 well-known and new playwrights from Shakespeare and Moliere to Arthur Miller and Neil Simon - on Broadway (Goodbye, Fidel - starring Jane Alexander) and off Broadway (Westside Arts: A Shayna Maidel and From Door to Door; Castillo Theatre: Yiddish Death of a Salesman), and in regional theatres 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 a multi-award-winning narrator (including, several times, “Narrator of the Year”) of around 1000 audio books, for all major publishers. In 2019 she was honored with a “Golden Voice” award from Audiofile Magazine, for “career achievements and invaluable contributions to the world of audiobooks

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