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The Awakening
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To curate a list of famous American writers who are also considered among the best American authors, a few things count: current ratings for their works, their particular time periods in history, critical reception, their prevalence in the 21st century, and yes, the awards they won. Many of these authors are taught in school today. From Hemingway to Harper Lee, these famous American authors are all worthy of enduring recognition—and a fresh listen!
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The Awakening
- By: Kate Chopin
- Narrated by: Sharon Plummer
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The Awakening is a novel by Kate Chopin, first published in 1899. Set in New Orleans and on the Louisiana Gulf coast at the end of the 19th century, the ...
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The Awakening
- Narrated by: Sharon Plummer
- Length: 4 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 12-20-24
- Language: English
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Life has the capacity of great moments and attainment, of lives well lived, fulfilling for ourselves and for those we touch. But for others life is arduous. There is no spark to ignite the curiosity, to explore and achieve a stability and a growth to their lives....
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The Awakening and Other Short Stories
- By: Kate Chopin
- Narrated by: Susie Berneis
- Length: 7 hrs and 9 mins
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One of the earliest feminist works in American literature, "The Awakening" tells the story of Edna Pontellier. Unsatisfied with societal expectations and unhappy with her family life, she begins to fall in love with the dapper Robert Lebrun....
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The Awakening and Other Short Stories
- Narrated by: Susie Berneis
- Length: 7 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 07-13-18
- Language: English
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The Awakening
- By: Kate Chopin
- Narrated by: Shelly Frasier
- Length: 5 hrs and 4 mins
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Edna Pontellier is married, twenty-eight, and at a crossroads in her life. She is passionate and artistic but has no one who understands her deep yearnings. She jumps at the chance to spend a summer away from her husband and the heat of New Orleans at a small coastal retreat.
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Amazing Story with So-So Narration
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The Awakening
- Narrated by: Shelly Frasier
- Length: 5 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 08-23-05
- Language: English
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The Awakening (AmazonClassics Edition)
- By: Kate Chopin
- Narrated by: Mary Robinette Kowal
- Length: 6 hrs and 41 mins
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On vacation in Grand Isle, Louisiana, a married woman falls in love with a charming, attentive young man. The relationship spurs Edna Pontellier to explore her longing for independence....
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Fix description! The Awakening AND OTHER STORIES
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The Awakening (AmazonClassics Edition)
- Narrated by: Mary Robinette Kowal
- Length: 6 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 01-10-18
- Language: English
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The Awakening
- By: Kate Chopin
- Narrated by: Susie Berneis
- Length: 5 hrs and 30 mins
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Unsatisfied with the expectations of Creole society and unhappy with her family life, Edna Pontellier begins to fall in love with the dapper Robert Lebrun....
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Good story, great reading.
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The Awakening
- Narrated by: Susie Berneis
- Length: 5 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 04-01-15
- Language: English
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The Awakening
- By: Kate Chopin
- Narrated by: Kim Basinger
- Length: 5 hrs and 38 mins
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Kate Chopin’s novel, a landmark work of early feminism, is seen as a precursor to the works of American novelists such as William Faulkner and Ernest Hemingway.....
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Better to sleep in peace than awake to nightmare?
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The Awakening
- Narrated by: Kim Basinger
- Length: 5 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 10-18-12
- Language: English
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The Awakening, and Selected Short Stories
- By: Kate Chopin
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Edna Pontellier has everything that a woman and mother should want - two wonderful sons, a husband, and good financial fortune. But still, she feels like something may be missing. While vacationing with her family, she meets a young man who shows affection....
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- Length: 6 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 10-30-20
- Language: English
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Kate Chopin's brilliant short story about an hour in the life of a young wife....
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A brilliant little story
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- Length: 7 mins
- Release date: 05-06-13
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In Désirée’s Baby, the adopted daughter of a wealthy prewar French Creole couple is courted by the son of another wealthy, respected French Creole family. After they marry, their child is born with dark skin and believed to have African ancestry....
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Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. They can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere.
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Nice way to hear the truth, like or not
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- Release date: 08-13-24
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The inevitable is understood by each and every one of us who faces the final calling. So too are the effects on those left behind. The memories are there but the empty space, the void can never be refilled. It remains a dark, unreliable pit of loneliness....
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The Awakening
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With its realistic portrayal of female marital infidelity, an anudience accustomed to the pieties of late Victorian romantic fiction were shocked by Chopin's radical portrayal of a woman trapped in a stifling marriage, seeking passionate physical love outside the confines of her domestic situation.
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The Awakening
- Narrated by: Katherine Fenton
- Length: 6 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 11-28-24
- Language: English
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The title of this short story from 1894 refers to the time elapsed between the moments at which the protagonist, Louise Mallard, hears that her husband is dead, then discovers that he is alive after all. The short story is a mainstay of feminist literary study....
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The Story of an Hour
- Narrated by: Lyssa Browne
- Length: 8 mins
- Release date: 12-18-19
- Language: English
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- Release date: 03-05-08
- Language: English
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In this series we explore the many facets of love through literary talents that span both time and country.
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The Awakening
- By: Kate Chopin
- Narrated by: Alexandra O’Karma
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This scandalous turn-of-the-century story follows 28-year-old Edna Pontellier, wife and mother, who one day awakens to the pangs of passion for the first time in her life.
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Worth Reading
- By B. Covington on 10-26-23
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The Awakening
- Narrated by: Alexandra O’Karma
- Length: 5 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 06-07-12
- Language: English
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The Awakening
- By: Kate Chopin
- Narrated by: Philippe Duquenoy
- Length: 5 hrs and 6 mins
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While on vacation with her husband and her two sons in the Grand Isle near New Orleans, Edna makes new friendships that transform her ordinary life and perspective upside down....
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An awakening for my ears
- By Christine on 04-02-16
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The Awakening
- Narrated by: Philippe Duquenoy
- Length: 5 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 02-08-16
- Language: English
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