The Awakening and Selected Short Stor..., Kate Chopin
The Awakening and Selected Short Stor..., Kate Chopin
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The Awakening and Selected Short Stories

Author: Kate Chopin

Narrator: Rebecca Stern

Unabridged: 7 hr 44 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/13/2023

Synopsis

A collection of Kate Chopin’s best-known work, including “The Awakening” and seven additional short stories.

About Kate Chopin

American author Kate Chopin (1850–1904) wrote two published novels and close to one hundred short stories in the late nineteenth century. Most of her fictional works are set in Louisiana, and her best-known stories focus on the lives of sensitive, intelligent women, often challenging traditional family and social structures of the time. 

About Rebecca Stern

Rebecca Stern has a voice that has been described as warm, expressive, articulate, and sincere. Her forty-plus years as a professional violinist instilled a deep love for the music of language and a passion for performing. In addition to violin and narration, she is an Oncology Massage Therapist. In her “me” time, she practices meditation and yoga, as well as hiking, biking, and exploring the natural beauty of the Idaho home she shares with her husband and two cats. 

Reviews

Goodreads review by kaelan on November 16, 2017

With several hours to kill before an appointment, I decided to pop inside a bookstore to pick up something "short but old." In pursuit of this end, I solicited the aid of the shop lady—one of those former English majors who've evidently forgotten everything they might have once learned in university......more

Goodreads review by Emi on September 30, 2014

It was amazing to watch the unraveling of Edna Pontellier's well-to-do, refined existence in Louisiana. Despite her privileged upbringing, youth, beauty, wealth, status and creativity, this 28-year old wife and mother is stifled by the social norms of the day (this was published in 1899) and begins......more

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