The Awakening

Written by Kate Chopin

Narrated by Sarah Jane Barry

When first published in 1899, "The Awakening" shocked readers with its honest treatment of female marital infidelity. Audiences accustomed to the pieties of late Victorian romantic fiction were taken aback by Chopin's daring portrayal of a woman trapped in a stifling marriage, who seeks and finds passionate physical love outside the confines of her domestic situation.

• Language: English
• Publisher: FrontPage Publishing Audio
• Release date: Nov 24, 2018
• ISBN: 9782291041924

Kate Chopin

Kate Chopin, born Katherine O'Flaherty (1850-1904), was an American writer of short stories and novels based in Louisiana. Chopin is best known for her novel The Awakening, and for her short story collections, Bayou Folk (1894) and A Night in Acadie (1897). Of French and Irish descent, her work depicted the various ethnic groups of Louisiana, especially of Creoles, with sensitivity and wit, and featured vivid descriptions of the natural environment there. After her husband died in 1882 and left her $42,000 in debt, Chopin took up writing to support her family of six children. Though popular, her serious literary qualities were overlooked in her day, and she is now seen as an important early American feminist writer.

Reviews for The Awakening

[NNEAMAKA PAYNE · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

It very sad to see and know that what drives someone can also become the end of them! I quite cannot comprehen the of the lady actions.