We hope you enjoy this preview of an episode from our back catalog available to our premium subscribers. Tonight, we’ll read the fifth chapter of “Little Women” by American author Louisa May Alcott, published in 1868, titled “Being Neighborly”. Following the lives of the four March sisters—Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy—the novel details their passage from childhood to womanhood and is loosely based on the author and her sisters.In the previous chapter, Burdens, the holidays are over and the girls return to their work, and to the burdens of life. To unlock full episodes and ad-free listening of this series and more, please go to snoozecast.com/plus.

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