Kate Chopin

The American Classics Collection is a century-spanning collection of 17 classic novels, short stories, essay, and poetry by American authors, read by a cast of incredible narrators.

The Awakening was first published in 1899. The plot centers on Louisianan Edna Pontellier and her struggle with her increasingly unorthodox views on femininity and motherhood....

Kate Chopin’s novel, a landmark work of early feminism, is seen as a precursor to the works of American novelists such as William Faulkner and Ernest Hemingway.....

This book contains the following works: Edgar Allan Poe: The Gold Bug, William Shakespeare: Romeo And Juliet, Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe: Faust, Mark Twain ...

Life has the capacity of great moments and attainment, of lives well lived, fulfilling for ourselves and for those we touch. But for others life is arduous. There is no spark to ignite the curiosity, to explore and achieve a stability and a growth to their lives....

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 ...

The inevitable is understood by each and every one of us who faces the final calling. So too are the effects on those left behind. The memories are there but the empty space, the void can never be refilled. It remains a dark, unreliable pit of loneliness....

Unsatisfied with the expectations of Creole society and unhappy with her family life, Edna Pontellier begins to fall in love with the dapper Robert Lebrun....

A full-cast adaptation of one of the earliest feminist works in American literature – plus a selection of Kate Chopin’s short stories.

Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. They can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere.

Kate Chopin's brilliant short story about an hour in the life of a young wife....

Edna Pontellier is married, twenty-eight, and at a crossroads in 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 coastal retreat.

Edna Pontellier has everything that a woman and mother should want - two wonderful sons, a husband, and good financial fortune. But still, she feels like something may be missing. While vacationing with her family, she meets a young man who shows affection....

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.

In Désirée’s Baby, the adopted daughter of a wealthy prewar French Creole couple is courted by the son of another wealthy, respected French Creole family. After they marry, their child is born with dark skin and believed to have African ancestry....

The American literary tradition has, in a far shorter span of time than others throughout history, achieved a glowing and glittering reputation. From its transatlantic roots it has absorbed the sons and daughters of other cultures, other lands and made them part of her own....

Presented here are three of the most important feminist novels ever written: Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf, The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and The Awakening by Kate Chopin....

Controversial, scandalous and almost universally censored and criticized upon its first release in 1899, Kate Chopin's The Awakening is a pioneering novel of female independence and sexual exploration....

Durante unas vacaciones en Grand Isle, en la costa sur de Luisiana, Edna Pontellier empieza a conocerse como mujer y su vida, tal y como la ha concebido hasta ese momento, comienza a carecer de sentido. Edna entra en crisis al poner en duda el papel del matrimonio y la maternidad....

Kate Chopin was born in Louisiana in 1850, and established her life there as a groundbreaking author, as her work subject included radical-for-the-time-ideas, such as feminism, race, and social change....