OTOH for a really good listen, turn to Diana Gabaldon, Bryce Courtenay, or Alexander Dumas. So if your professor has assigned this work, download and enjoy.
He does read clearly and the whole production is quite flawless. The narrator gets the Southern accent nicely, but I never forget he is reading. I remember wanting to shake the man in "Beast in the Jungle" and holler at him, "SHE LOVES YOU, LUNKHEAD!" That said, the story is almost embroidered on silk or painted with watercolors. The Awakening - Kate Chopin auf Apple Podcasts 8 Folgen The Modern Library edition of The Awakening has an introduction by Kay Gibbons, who writes: The Awakening shocked turn-of-the-century readers with its forthright treatment of sex and suicide. This story is subtle, somewhat like Henry James. Don't choose it for a fun listen you'll be put to sleep, hardly awakened, with details of drawing rooms and calling cards and removing the hat and so on. However, it will take another listen or two and some background study to appreciate the work better.
Being a lit major, I can now say I've listened. Awakening A SELDOM DISCUSSED MOMENT IN KATE CHOPIN'S THE AWAKENING OCCUrS when Edna Pontellier's father arrives for a visit and is sketched by his daughter: Before her pencil he sat rigid and unflinching, as he had faced the cannon's mouth in days gone by. I gather this work is important to the women's movement and also as American literature. Published in 1899, Chopin's novella shocked critics and audiences alike, who showed little sympathy for the author or her central protagonist, Edna Pontellier. For a dollar an hour, well, I don't know how they did it so inexpensively, but thank you very much. Kate Chopin's The Awakening is a frank look at a woman's life at the turn of the 19th century. I paid cash for this when I had no credits.
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