Kate Chopin Audio Books

Kate Chopin's 1899 novella The Awakening is about the personal, sexual, and artistic awakening of a young wife and mother, Edna Pontellier.

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.

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

Here are eight stories from master American writers of the nineteenth 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 anthology of complete short fiction represents some of the most significant and enjoyable...

At age twenty-eight Edna Pontellier vows to honor the deep yearnings within herself that she senses are unfulfilled by marriage and motherhood.

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

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

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.