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Louisa May Alcott

1832–1888

Best known for "Little Women," she turned family life, hard work, and strong-willed girls into stories that have stayed beloved for generations. Her writing drew on real experience, giving it warmth, humor, and emotional honesty.

61 Audiobooks

Little Women; Or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy

by Louisa May Alcott

Little Women

by Louisa May Alcott

Little Women

by Louisa May Alcott

Behind a Mask; or, a Woman's Power

by Louisa May Alcott

Little Men: Life at Plumfield With Jo's Boys

by Louisa May Alcott

Rose in Bloom

by Louisa May Alcott

Jo's Boys

by Louisa May Alcott

Little Men

by Louisa May Alcott

Jack and Jill

by Louisa May Alcott

Louisa May Alcott : Her Life, Letters, and Journals

by Louisa May Alcott

Eight Cousins

by Louisa May Alcott

Jack and Jill

by Louisa May Alcott

Flower Fables

by Louisa May Alcott

An Old-Fashioned Girl

by Louisa May Alcott

Onder Moeders Vleugels

by Louisa May Alcott

The Louisa Alcott Reader: a Supplementary Reader for the Fourth Year of School

by Louisa May Alcott

Hospital Sketches

by Louisa May Alcott

Moods

by Louisa May Alcott

A Modern Cinderella; Or, The Little Old Shoe, and Other Stories

by Louisa May Alcott

Work: A Story of Experience

by Louisa May Alcott

Spinning-Wheel Stories

by Louisa May Alcott

Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of Louisa M. Alcott

by Louisa May Alcott

A Garland for Girls

by Louisa May Alcott

Aunt Jo's Scrap Bag, Volume 1

by Louisa May Alcott

Under the Lilacs

by Louisa May Alcott

Eight Cousins; Or, The Aunt-Hill

by Louisa May Alcott

Lulu's Library, Volume 3 (of 3)

by Louisa May Alcott

The Mysterious Key and What It Opened

by Louisa May Alcott

Lulu's Library, Volume 1 (of 3)

by Louisa May Alcott

The Abbot's Ghost, or Maurice Treherne's Temptation: A Christmas Story

by Louisa May Alcott

Proverb Stories

by Louisa May Alcott

May Flowers

by Louisa May Alcott

Aunt Jo's Scrap Bag, Volume 5

by Louisa May Alcott

A Modern Mephistopheles, and A Whisper in the Dark

by Louisa May Alcott

The Candy Country

by Louisa May Alcott

Silver Pitchers: and Independence, a Centennial Love Story

by Louisa May Alcott

Little Men: Life at Plumfield with Jo's Boys

by Louisa May Alcott

Comic Tragedies

by Louisa May Alcott, Anna Bronson Alcott Pratt

Aunt Jo's Scrap Bag, Volume 6

by Louisa May Alcott

Pauline's Passion and Punishment

by Louisa May Alcott

Rose in Bloom

by Louisa May Alcott

Onder Moeders Vleugels

by Louisa May Alcott

Aunt Jo's Scrap Bag, Volume 2

by Louisa May Alcott

Bloemensprookjes van Tante Jo

by Louisa May Alcott

Kitty's Class Day and Other Stories

by Louisa May Alcott

Op Eigen Wieken

by Louisa May Alcott

Three Unpublished Poems

by Louisa May Alcott

Marjorie's Three Gifts

by Louisa May Alcott

Lulu's Library, Volume 2 (of 3)

by Louisa May Alcott

Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag, Volume 3

by Louisa May Alcott

Pikku naisia

by Louisa May Alcott

On Picket Duty, and Other Tales

by Louisa May Alcott

Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag, Volume 4

by Louisa May Alcott

Mountain-Laurel and Maidenhair

by Louisa May Alcott

Mia Kontrabandulo

by Louisa May Alcott

Pikku miehiä

by Louisa May Alcott

Kun ruusu puhkeaa

by Louisa May Alcott

Plumfieldin pojat

by Louisa May Alcott

Viimevuotiset ystävämme

by Louisa May Alcott

Kahdeksan serkusta

by Louisa May Alcott

Tytöistä parhain

by Louisa May Alcott

About the author

Born in Germantown, Pennsylvania, in 1832, she grew up in a thoughtful but often financially struggling family connected to leading New England reformers and writers. Those early years of thrift, education, and close family life would later shape the world readers know from Little Women.

She wrote poems, thrillers, stories, and novels, but her greatest success came with Little Women in 1868, followed by Little Men and Jo's Boys. Before that breakthrough, she worked at many jobs and also served as a nurse during the American Civil War, an experience she turned into the vivid book Hospital Sketches.

She died in Boston in 1888, just two days after her father, Bronson Alcott. Though she wrote in many forms, she is still especially admired for creating spirited, memorable young women and for making everyday family life feel dramatic, funny, and deeply human.