The Awakening (version 2): Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Awakening (version 2), credited to Kate Chopin, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of The Awakening, by Kate Chopin. Read by Elizabeth Klett. Kate Chopin's 1899 novella The Awakening is about the personal, sexual, and artistic awakening of a young wife and mother, Edna Pontellier. While on vacation at Grand Isle, an island in the Gulf of Mexico, Edna befriends the talented pianist Mlle. Reisz and the sympathetic Robert Lebrun, both of whom will influence her startling life choices. Chopin's novel created a scandal upon its original publication and effectively destroyed her writing career. Now, however, it is considered one of the finest American novels of the 19th century.

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Awakening (version 2)
• Author credits: Kate Chopin
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 8
• Listed recording duration: 4:37:45

Catalogue topics

• awakening
• chopin

Track guide

1. 1 - Part 1 (Chapters 1-5) — 28:57
2. 2 - Part 2 (Chapters 6-10) — 43:35
3. 3 - Part 3 (Chapters 11-15) — 36:53
4. 4 - Part 4 (Chapters 16-20) — 38:38
5. 5 - Part 5 (Chapters 21-25) — 39:37
6. 6 - Part 6 (Chapters 26-30) — 31:53
7. 7 - Part 7 (Chapters 31-35) — 30:48
8. 8 - Part 8 (Chapters 36-39) — 27:26

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