The Awakening (Standard format, CD, Unabridged)

Kate Chopin's novel, a landmark work of early feminism, is seen as a pre-cursor to the works of American novelists such as William Faulkner and Ernest Hemingway. The upper-class Creole society of New Orleans and the Southern Louisiana coast at the end of the 19th century is brought to audio in a stirring performance by Academy Award-winning actress Kim Basinger.

Edna Pontellier, vacationing for the summer with her family on Grand Isle, has a great desire to find and live fully within her true self. However, her struggle to reconcile her unorthodox views on femininity and motherhood with the prevailing social attitudes of the turn-of-the-century South brings the story to a tragic conclusion. "The Awakening?s" blend of realistic narrative, incisive social commentary, and psychological complexity is the first in a tradition that would culminate in the modern masterpieces of Flannery O?Connor, Eudora Welty, and Tennessee Williams.

"The Awakening" is part of Audible's A-List Collection, featuring the world's most celebrated actors narrating distinguished works of literature that each star had a hand in selecting.

General

Imprint:	Brilliance Audio
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	The Classic Collection
Release date:	July 2014
First published:	2014
Authors:	Kate Chopin
Narrators:	Kim Basinger
Dimensions:	140 x 165 x 19mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Standard format
Disks:	5
Running time:	341 minutes
Edition:	Unabridged
ISBN-13:	978-1-4805-5979-0
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > Modern fiction
LSN:	1-4805-5979-2
Barcode:	9781480559790

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