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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 the cross road of her life. She is passionate and artistic, but has no one who understands her deep yearnings....
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Amazing Story with So-So Narration
- By Lucy on 11-02-06
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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 and Other Short Stories
- By: Kate Chopin
- Narrated by: Susie Berneis
- Length: 7 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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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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No ending? Audio launches into the other stories
- By bombadillo on 10-01-21
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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 Story of an Hour
- By: Kate Chopin
- Narrated by: Cathy Dobson
- Length: 7 mins
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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
- By Areader on 10-05-14
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The Story of an Hour
- Narrated by: Cathy Dobson
- Length: 7 mins
- Release date: 05-06-13
- Language: English
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The Awakening, and Selected Short Stories
- By: Kate Chopin
- Narrated by: Harriet Seed
- Length: 6 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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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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The Awakening, and Selected Short Stories
- Narrated by: Harriet Seed
- Length: 6 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 10-30-20
- Language: English
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Short Stories About Suicide
- By: Guy de Maupassant, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Franz Kafka, and others
- Narrated by: Richard Mitchley, Laurel Lefkow, Mark Rice-Oxley
- Length: 15 hrs and 17 mins
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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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A deep listen
- By Anonymous User on 08-31-24
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Short Stories About Suicide
- Narrated by: Richard Mitchley, Laurel Lefkow, Mark Rice-Oxley
- Length: 15 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 06-22-23
- 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
- By W. on 11-12-18
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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.
- By Donald on 03-14-17
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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 American Classics Collection - Volume One: 15+ Novels, Stories, and Poems from HP Lovecraft, Ernest Hemingway, Mark Twain, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Edith Wharton, Frederick Douglass, & More
- A Farewell to Arms, At the Mountains of Madness, Little Women, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Call of the Wild, The Great Gatsby, The Narrative Life of Frederick Douglass, Walden, & More
- By: Louisa May Alcott, Edgar Allan Poe, Henry David Thoreau, and others
- Narrated by: Kobna Holdbrook-Smith, Nathan Osgood, Robert G. Slade, and others
- Length: 145 hrs
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The American Classics Collection is a century-spanning collection of 17 classic novels, short stories, essay, and poetry by American authors, read by a cast of incredible narrators.
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The American Classics Collection - Volume One: 15+ Novels, Stories, and Poems from HP Lovecraft, Ernest Hemingway, Mark Twain, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Edith Wharton, Frederick Douglass, & More
- A Farewell to Arms, At the Mountains of Madness, Little Women, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Call of the Wild, The Great Gatsby, The Narrative Life of Frederick Douglass, Walden, & More
- Narrated by: Kobna Holdbrook-Smith, Nathan Osgood, Robert G. Slade, Jonathan Keeble, Katherine Fenton, Peter Noble, William Hope
- Length: 145 hrs
- Release date: 01-01-25
- Language: English
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Desiree's Baby
- Short Stories
- By: Kate Chopin
- Narrated by: Susie Berneis
- Length: 15 mins
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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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Desiree's Baby
- Short Stories
- Narrated by: Susie Berneis
- Length: 15 mins
- Release date: 07-24-18
- 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?
- By W Perry Hall on 02-01-14
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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
- By: Kate Chopin
- Narrated by: Alexandra O’Karma
- Length: 5 hrs and 22 mins
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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 Story of an Hour
- By: Kate Chopin
- Narrated by: Lyssa Browne
- Length: 8 mins
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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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The Top 10 Short Stories - Sad Love
- By: James Joyce, Anton Chekhov, D H Lawrence, and others
- Narrated by: Jim Norton
- Length: 5 hrs and 46 mins
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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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The Top 10 Short Stories - Sad Love
- Narrated by: Jim Norton
- Length: 5 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 08-13-24
- Language: English
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The Story of an Hour
- Narrated by: Walter Covell
- Length: 7 mins
- Release date: 03-05-08
- Language: English
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The Top 10 Short Stories - The 1890's
- By: Anton Chekhov, Ambrose Bierce, Arthur Conan Doyle, and others
- Narrated by: Liza Ross, Eric Meyers, Richard Mitchley
- Length: 7 hrs and 12 mins
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As the Century draws to a close it shows no sign of its literary talents diminishing. Authors stride into stories with a confidence and knowledge that now speak of a gilded age.
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The Top 10 Short Stories - The 1890's
- Narrated by: Liza Ross, Eric Meyers, Richard Mitchley
- Length: 7 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 07-31-24
- Language: English
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The American Short Story - Volume 3
- A Chronological History - Volume 3
- By: Mark Twain, Henry James, Kate Chopin, and others
- Narrated by: Laurel Lefkow, Christopher Ragland, Eric Meyers
- Length: 6 hrs and 50 mins
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The American literary tradition has, in a far shorter span of time than others throughout history, achieved a glowing and glittering reputation. From its transatlantic roots it has absorbed the sons and daughters of other cultures, other lands and made them part of her own....
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The American Short Story - Volume 3
- A Chronological History - Volume 3
- Narrated by: Laurel Lefkow, Christopher Ragland, Eric Meyers
- Length: 6 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 07-30-24
- Language: English
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Short Stories About Death, Dying and Loss
- By: James Joyce, Joseph Conrad, Edgar Allan Poe, and others
- Narrated by: Jim Norton, William Dufris, Eve Karpf
- Length: 12 hrs and 34 mins
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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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Short Stories About Death, Dying and Loss
- Narrated by: Jim Norton, William Dufris, Eve Karpf
- Length: 12 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 06-22-23
- Language: English
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A Pair of Silk Stockings
- Narrated by: Arielle DeLisle
- Length: 11 mins
- Release date: 12-04-13
- Language: English
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The Storm
- By: Kate Chopin
- Narrated by: Alice Greendale
- Length: 13 mins
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An intense story of love, lust, and betrayal set amidst an intense storm in the American South, The Storm is the sequel to At the 'Cadian Ball by American novelist Kate Chopin....
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The Storm
- Narrated by: Alice Greendale
- Length: 13 mins
- Release date: 02-08-19
- Language: English
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Her Letters
- By: Kate Chopin
- Narrated by: Lee Ann Howlett
- Length: 18 mins
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A woman nearing the end of her life knows that she must destroy intimate love letters between herself and another man so that no one, particularly her husband, can ever read them....
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Her Letters
- Narrated by: Lee Ann Howlett
- Length: 18 mins
- Release date: 09-18-15
- Language: English
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