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  • A Night in Acadie

    by Kate Chopin ...
    There was nothing to do on the plantation so Telèsphore, having a few dollars in his pocket, thought he would go down and spend Sunday in the vicinity of Marksville. There was really nothing more to do in the vicinity of Marksville than in the neighborhood of his own small farm; but Elvina would not be down there, nor Amaranthe, nor any of Ma’me Valtour’s daughters to harass him with doubt, to ... Read more

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  • The Awakening and Selected Short Stories

    by Kate Chopin ...
    A green and yellow parrot, which hung in a cage outside the door, kept repeating over and over: "Allez vous-en! Allez vous-en! Sapristi! That's all right!" He could speak a little Spanish, and also a language which nobody understood, unless it was the mocking-bird that hung on the Other side of the door, whistling his fluty notes out upon the breeze with maddening persistence. Mr. Pontellier, ... Read more

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  • The Awakening

    by Kate Chopin ...
    Sex, suicide, sensuality, affairs and a woman realising that life must hold much more than just being a wife and a mother. Will Edna follow her desires or will her controlling husband bring her back into line?Driven by affection for another man, our heroine, Edna Pontellier walks slowly along the tragic path of her defiance against her husband and the cruel society that she is part of. Bolder with ... Read more

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  • The Awakening

    by Kate Chopin ...
    First published in 1899, this beautiful, brief novel so disturbed critics and the public that it was banished for decades afterward. Now widely read and admired, The Awakening has been hailed as an early vision of woman’s emancipation. This sensuous book tells of a woman’s abandonment of her family, her seduction, and her awakening to desires and passions that threated to consumer her. Originally ... Read more

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  • The Awakening

    by Kate Chopin ...
    It is the late 1800s, and Edna Pontellier is a wealthy married woman vacationing with her family in Grand Isle, a popular resort island frequented by the high society of New Orleans. Her husband is dedicated to his work, leaving Edna to spend much of her days with a married Creole woman named Adele Ratignolle whose unreserved manner begins to prompt Edna to explore her own repressed emotions and ... Read more

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  • Woman's Role and Choice in Love - Short Stories: Some of histories greatest love stories, happy, sad or both.

    Love. Perhaps the one word solution for everything. An emotion, a state of mind that we strive for, search for. A wondrous force that binds, inspires, and a force that can spin out of control; unbalanced and fragile. Love reflects, changes and embraces us all.In this series we explore the many facets of love through literary talents that span both time and country. Men did, in the age of our ... Read more

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  • The Story of an Hour

    by Kate Chopin ...
    The Story of an Hour is a short story written by Kate Chopin on April 19, 1894. It was originally published in Vogue on December 6, 1894, as "The Dream of an Hour". It was later reprinted in St. Louis Life on January 5, 1895, as "The Story of an Hour".The title of the short story refers to the time elapsed between the moments at which the protagonist, Louise Mallard, hears that her husband, ... Read more

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    Wonder Of Women - Stories About Affairs

    Celebrate the true pioneers of female literature

    Unabridged

    5 hours 18 min

    Let’s be clear. We are all equal under the law. However, even in these more modern times that is not an absolute and still remains a distant ambition for many.In the days when Britain ruled the waves and bestrode the world as its policeman and plunderer in chief it also subjugated half of its own people to second class status. Women were chattel and property. There were some exceptions based on ... Read more

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  • The Awakening: And Other Stories

    And Other Stories

    by Kate Chopin ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'She wanted to swim far out, where no woman had swum before.' Kate Chopin was one of the most individual and adventurous of nineteenth-century american writers, whose fiction explored new and often startling territory. When her most famous story, The Awakening, was first published in 1899, it stunned readers with its frank portrayal of the inner word of Edna Pontellier, and its daring criticisms ... Read more

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  • Audiobook

    The Awakening

    by Kate Chopin ...
    Narrated by Elizabeth Klett ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 35 min

    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 plot centers on Edna Pontellier and her struggle between her increasingly unorthodox views on femininity and motherhood with the prevailing social attitudes of the turn-of-the-century American South. It is one of the earlier American novels that ... Read more

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  • The Awakening and Selected Stories

    by Kate Chopin ...
    "The Awakening" is the story of Edna Pontellier, an attractive twenty-eight year old woman who is a wife and mother of two sons living in the Creole south in the late 19th century. Edna finds herself trapped in her life as a wife and a mother and feels unable to express her passionate sensuality within the confines of her marriage. She seeks a spiritual and sexual awakening through an affair with ... Read more

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  • The Story Of An Hour

    Short Story

    by Kate Chopin ...
    Mrs. Louise Mallard, afflicted with a heart condition, reflects on the death of her husband from the safety of her locked room. Originally published in Vogue magazine, “The Story of an Hour” was retitled as “The Dream of an Hour,” when it was published amid much controversy under its new title a year later in St. Louis Life. “The Story of an Hour” was adapted to film in The Joy That Kills by ... Read more

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