Kate Chopin Audio Books

Listen to American author Kate Chopin's 1899 novella The Awakening. Set in the turn-of-the-century American South, the book explores one woman's desire to find and live fully within her true self.

Narrated by two-time Academy Award-winning actress Hilary Swank, The Awakening is set in New Orleans and the Southern Louisiana coast at the end of the nineteenth century.

Ten superbly narrated stories that help explain America by America's best writers...

Here are eight stories from master American writers of the nineteenth century.

On vacation in Grand Isle, Louisiana, a married woman falls in love with a charming, attentive young man.

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.

This collection includes five stories by influential women writers from the close of the 19th century and the first decades of the 20th century.

This is the moving and powerful story of Edna Pontellier, a beautiful young wife and mother who discovers her true feelings and identity through her love for Robert Lebrun...

This unique collection features some of the best short stories every written....

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. She jumps at the chance to spend a summer away from her husband and the heat of New Orleans at a small costal retreat.