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Read Little Women online, free

Louisa May Alcott · 1868

The whole book, free in your browser: about 13 hours 30 minutes of reading, 186,407 words. There is nothing to install, no account to make and no ads.

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How it begins

“Christmas won’t be Christmas without any presents,” grumbled Jo, lying on the rug.

Read it on a summer night

A warm summer night suits it: four sisters growing up together, with their plays, their letters and their long summer days.

The button above opens the book with crickets on a warm summer night, its weather over the page. The sound starts with your first tap or key in the reader, and the sound panel changes the scene or turns it off. More about it: Night sounds: summer crickets.

The same sounds in the Android app

Silent Book for Android has the same six sounds and both pianos, over your own EPUB, FB2 and PDF books on your phone. It is free, with no daily limit, no ads while you read and no sign-in needed. The sounds come with the app, so they play with no connection.

Get it on Google Play

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Questions

Is Little Women free to read here?

Yes. The whole book is free to read on this site, with no ads and no time limit. Standard Ebooks, whose edition this is, dedicates it to the public domain.

Do I need to install anything or sign up?

No. The book opens in your browser: there is nothing to install, no account to make and no ads. This browser keeps your place in it.

Can I read it with rain or another sound?

Yes. The button on this page opens it with crickets on a warm summer night. The sound button in the reader offers six scenes, spring rain, a summer night, autumn wind, a winter hush, a campfire and sea waves, each with its weather over the page, free with no time limit.

Can I download Little Women as an EPUB?

Yes, from Standard Ebooks, whose edition the reader opens: its page for Little Women offers the EPUB free, dedicated to the public domain under CC0 1.0. Our guide to free e-books shows how to download it and open it here.

Can I read it on my phone?

Yes. The reader works in your phone's browser too, with nothing to install. There is also Silent Book for Android, which reads your own EPUB, FB2 and PDF files with the same six sounds; it opens on Google Play country by country, so it may not be in yours yet.

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Text: Standard Ebooks, whose edition is dedicated to the public domain under CC0 1.0; Standard Ebooks does not endorse this site. The reader's notice names every source. The cover is an illustration generated with Google Gemini.