Audiobooks by Kate Chopin

The Awakening & more: A Full-Cast BBC Radio Dramatisation

"A full-cast adaptation of America’s most influential 19th century feminist writer - plus a bonus selection of short stories. Best known for her narratives about the inner lives of sensitive, daring women, Kate Chopin is a vital American author of short stories and novels. She is considered by scholars to have been a forerunner of American 20th century feminist authors, paving the way for the likes of Zelda Fitzgerald. Best known for her 1899 novel The Awakening, Chopin shocked the readers of her day by showing a woman fulfilled by throwing off the ties of marriage and children. The Awakening, brought to life by a full cast in this adaptation, is Kate Chopin's seminal tale of one woman's pursuit of moral and sexual freedom in turn-of-the-century New Orleans. Unsatisfied with societal expectations, Edna Pontellier falls in love with the dapper Robert Lebrun. Lebrun's flirtations rejuvenate Edna's sense of freedom and independence. However, Edna also has a taste of the danger that comes from living outside of social convention. Trapped between the life she is expected to live and the one she longs to lead, Edna is propelled on a course that frees, consumes and eventually destroys her. Starring Briony Glassco, William Dufris and Lorelei King. This stunning collection also contains five of Chopin’s short stories, exquisitely read by Carolyn Pickles and Claire Corbett, and available together here for the first time. ‘Ma'ame Pelagie’ is the portrait of a woman on a plantation adjusting to life after the American Civil War. In ‘A Respectable Woman’, Mrs Baroda, the wife of a sugar planter, finds herself confused and ambivalent when an old friend of her husband’s comes to stay in this cleverly observed story. In ‘The Story of an Hour’, some supposedly bad news leaves a woman feeling strangely free. But has there been a mistake? ‘The Kiss’ is the story of a woman scheming to marry a wealthy man and maintain a young lover. Finally, in 'A Pair of Silk Stockings', a woman spends a windfall on herself, instead of her children – but what are the consequences… This is the perfect immersive listen for any fan of classic storytelling with a twist. Discover an author whose work has echoed down the centuries and inspired writers for generations. ©2025 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd (P)2025 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd"

Kate Chopin (Author), Briony Glassco, Carolyn Pickles, Clare Corbett, Full Cast, Lorelei King, William Dufris (Narrator)

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World's Greatest Sci-Fi Stories

"Included The Apparition Of Mrs. Veal by Daniel Defoe, Alice Addertongue by Benjamin Franklin, The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving, Prosper Mérimée by Mateo Falcone, Napoleon And The Spectre by Charlotte Bronte, The Mortal Immortal by Mary Shelley, Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Dr. Heidegger's Experiment by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Overcoat by Nikolai Gogol, The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe, The Cask Of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe, An Honest Thief by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Frog by Edgar Allan Poe, The Knitted Collar by Mary Anne Hoare, To Be Read At Dusk. by Charles Dickens, The District Doctor by Ivan Turgenev, Nobody's Story by Charles Dickens, The Fiddler by Herman Melville, The Lightning-Rod Man by Herman Melville, Selecting The Faculty by Robert Carlton, The Cold Embrace by Mary E. Braddon, Journalism In Tennessee by Mark Twain, The Luck Of Roaring Camp by Bret Harte, A Jersey Centenarian by Bret Harte, The Notorious Jumping Frog Of Calaveras County by Mark Twain, The Peterkins Decide To Learn The Languages by Lucretia Peabody Hale, The Dream Of A Ridiculous Man by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Parson's Horse Race by Harriet Beecher Stowe, How I killed a bear by Charles Dudley Warner, My Uncle Jules by Guy de Maupassant, The Necklace by Guy de Maupassant, A White Heron Sarah Orne Jewett, The Goophered Grapevine, The Sphinx Without A Secret by Oscar Wilde, The Invaders by Leo Tolstoy, The Happy Prince by Oscar Wilde, A New England Nun by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Squire Petrick's Lady by Thomas Hardy, An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce, A Ghost Story by Jerome K. Jerome, Désirée's Baby by Kate Chopin, The Damned Thing by Ambrose Bierce, Damned Thing by Ambrose Bierce, The Idiot's Journalism Scheme, Active Colorado Real Estate, The Remarkable Case Of Davidson's Eyes by H.G. Wells, The Veteran by Stepehn Crane, Rollo Learning To Read by Robert J. Burdette, A Pair Of Silk Stockings by Kate Chopin, The Open Boat by Stephen Crane, The Tables Of The Law by W.B. Yeats, The Bride Comes To Yellow Sky by Stephen Crane, Gooseberries by Anton Chekhov, The Storm by Kate Chopin, The Darling by Anton Chekhov, Wee Willie Winkie by Rudyard Kipling, The White Silence by Jack London, How Old Timofei Died With A Song by Rainer Maria Rilke, The Path To The Cemetery by Thomas Mann, With Other Eyes by Luigi Pirandello, The Leopard Man's Story by Jack London, A Piece Of String by Guy de Maupassant, Home Sickness by George Moore, The Open Window by H.H. Munro (Saki), A Wagner Matinée by Willa Cather, The Set Of Poe by George Ade, The Furnished Room by O. Henry, The Gift Of The Magi by O. Henry, The Last Leaf by O. Henry, The Machine Stops by E.M. Forster, The Enchanted Bluff by Willa Cather, The Cottagette by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Germans At Meat by Katherine Mansfield, Tobermory by Saki, How Pearl Button Was Kidnapped by Katherine Mansfield, Smoke by Djuna Barnes, The Blind Man by James Stephens, If I Were A Man by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Ivy Day In The Committee Room by James Joyce, Eveline by James Joyce, The Damned by Algernon Blackwood, The Damned by Algernon Blackwood. Part 2., The Prussian Officer by D.H. Lawrence, The Signal by Vsevolod M. Garshin, The White Mother by Theodor Sologub, The Ploughing Of Leaca-Na-Naomh by Daniel Corkery, The Judgment by Franz Kafka, The Coffin-Maker by Alexander Pushkin, Mrs. Frola And Mr. Ponza, Her Son-In-Law by Luigi Pirandello, The Blind Ones by Isaak Babel, Pink Flannel by Ford Maddox Ford, A Country Doctor by Franz Kafka, The Egg by Sherwood Anderson, The Mark On The Wall by Virginia Woolf, The Garden Party by Katherine Mansfield, The Leather Funnel by Arthur Conan Doyle, A Hunger Artist by Franz Kafka, A Raid Night by H.M. Tomlinson, My Old Man by Ernest Hemingway, The Broken Boot by John Galsworthy, The Call Of Cthulhu by H.P. Lovecraft."

Ambrose Bierce, Benjamin Franklin, Charles Dickens, Charlotte Bronte, Daniel Defoe, E.M. Forster, Edgar Allan Poe, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Guy De Maupassant, H.G. Wells, Herman Melville, Jack London, Kate Chopin, Leo Tolstoy, Mark Twain, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Mateo Falcone, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Nikolai Gogol, Oscar Wilde, Stephen Crane, Washington Irving (Author), Chase Cooper (Narrator)

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World's Greatest Short Stories

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The Awakening

"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 earliest American novels that focuses on women's issues without condescension. It is also widely seen as a landmark work of early feminism, generating a mixed reaction from contemporary readers and critics. The novel's blend of realistic narrative, incisive social commentary, and psychological complexity makes The Awakening a precursor of American modernist literature; it prefigures the works of American novelists. The most famous and inspirational works of Kate Chopin include: The Awakening, At the Cadian Ball, At the Cadian Ball, The Story of an Hour, The Story of an Hour, Désirée's Baby, The Storm, A Pair of Silk Stockings and many more."

Kate Chopin (Author), Sharon Plummer (Narrator)

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10 Masterpieces You Have to Read Before You Die, Vol. 2: The Gold-Bug, Romeo And Juliet, Faust, The

"This book contains the following works: 1. Edgar Allan Poe: The Gold Bug 2. William Shakespeare: Romeo And Juliet 3. Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe: Faust 4. Mark Twain: Adventures of Tom Sawyer 5. Leo Tolstoy: The Death of Ivan Ilyich (Translator: Constance Garnett) 6. Arthur Conan Doyle: The Lost World 7. Henry James: The Turn of the Screw 8. Antoine de Saint-Exupery: The Little Prince (Translator: Marina Zhigalova) 9. Oscar Wilde: The Picture of Dorian Gray 10. Kate Chopin: The Awakening"

Antoine de Saint-Exupery, Edgar Allan Poe, Henry James, Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Kate Chopin, Leo Tolstoy, Mark Twain, Oscar Wilde, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, William Shakespeare (Author), Abigail Reno, David Miles, Kelli Winkler, Luana Marantz, Paul Gibson, Rick Walz, Sharon Plummer, Simon Jackson (Narrator)

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The Awakening

"The Awakening caused a stir amongst it's readers when it was first published in 1899. With its realistic portrayal of female marital infidelity, an anudience accustomed to the pieties of late Victorian romantic fiction were shocked by Chopin's radical portrayal of a woman trapped in a stifling marriage, seeking passionate physical love outside the confines of her domestic situation."

Kate Chopin (Author), Katherine Fenton (Narrator)

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3 Stories About - Women's Sexuality

"There is something about the number 3. The Ancient Greeks believed 3 was the perfect number, and in China 3 has always been a lucky number, and they know a thing or two. Most religions also have 3 this and 3 that and, of course, in these more modern times, three’s a crowd may be too many, except when it’s a ménage à trois. It seems good things usually come in threes.Whatever history and culture says WE think 3, a hat-trick of stories, is a great number to explore themes and literary avenues that classic authors were so adept at creating.From their pens to your your ears. 01 - 3 Stories About - Women's Sexuality02 - Bliss by Katherine Mansfield03 - The Giant Wisteria by Charlotte Perkins Gilman04 - The Storm by Kate Chopin"

Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Kate Chopin, Katherine Mansfield (Author), Eve Karpf, Laurel Lefkow, Liza Ross (Narrator)

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Wonder Of Women - Love Stories

"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 wealth and birthright but for the overwhelming majority your lot was to fall in with the rules and do as you were told. Many did.But whilst male society sought to place obstacles in the path to equality, it could not deny their literary talents, which many times they circumvented by using male pseudonyms. However, the soaring sales of magazines and periodicals during the Victorian Age meant they had voracious appetites for literature, whatever the sex of its gender.Dozens of authors appeared to fill the need. Narratives had new ideas. Characters were emboldened by societal changes and the female voice taking responsibility.The women included here are talents that dazzle. Put them up against anyone and they rise to the top. Whether they remain with an avid readership today or faded to obscurity with the passing of the times their quality remains undimmed. 1 - Women of Wonder - Love - An Introduction2 - Life of Ma Parker by Katherine Mansfield3 - Uncle Abraham's Romance by Edith Nesbit4 - Here We Are by Dorothy Parker5 - Some Ways of Love by Charlotte Mew6 - The Muse's Tragedy by Edith Wharton7 - The Sexton's Hero by Elizabeth Gaskell8 - A Middle Sized Artist by Charlotte Perkins Gilman9 - The Mortal Immortal by Mary Shelley10 - A Spirit Elopement by Clotilde Graves11 - A Story of a Wedding Tour by Margaret Oliphant12 - The Locket by Kate Chopin13 - On the Gull's Road by Willa Cather14 - The Canary by Katherine Mansfield15 - May Afternoon by Catherine Wells16 - The Night Before Thanksgiving by Sarah Orne Jewett17 - The Oculist by Catherine Wells18 - The Dream by Mary Shelley19 - The Dance by Zona Gale20 - The Dark Cottage by Mary Cholmondeley21 - The Way the World Is by Zona Gale22 - Psychology by Katherine Mansfield23 - The Shape of Fear by Elia W Peattie24 - Those Who Wait by Ethel Dell25 - An Unexpected Fare by Mary Tuttiett writing as Maxwell Gray26 - A New England Nun by Mary E Wilkins Freeman27 - White Magic by Ella D'Arcy28 - A Symphony in Lavender by Mary Wilkins E Freeman29 - The Mass for the Dead by Edith Nesbit30 - Fantomina or, Love in a Maze - Part 1 by Eliza Haywood31 - Fantomina or, Love in a Maze - Part 2 by Eliza Haywood"

Catherine Wells, Charlotte Mew, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Clotilde Graves, Dorothy Parker, Edith Nesbit, Edith Wharton, Elia W Peattie, Eliza Haywood, Elizabeth Gaskell, Ella D'Arcy, Ethel Dell, Kate Chopin, Katherine Mansfield, Margaret Oliphant, Mary Cholmondeley, Mary E Wilkins Freeman, Mary Tuttiett writing as Maxwell Gray, Mary Wilkins E Freeman, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Sarah Orne Jewett, Willa Cather, Zona Gale (Author), Eve Karpf, Laurel Lefkow, Lisa Bowerman (Narrator)

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Wonder Of Women - Stories About Affairs

Ada Radford, Edith Nesbit, Edith Wharton, Ellen Glasgow, Gertrude Barrows Bennett writing as Francis Stevens, Kate Chopin, Marjorie Bowen, May Sinclair, Virginia Woolf (Author), Janet Maw, Liza Ross, Richard Mitchley (Narrator)

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3 Stories About - Suicidal Thoughts

Amy Levy, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Kate Chopin (Author), David Shaw-Parker, Laurel Lefkow, Richard Mitchley (Narrator)

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American Civil War Stories Not by Ambrose Bierce

"In this series we listen to short stories that are NOT by perhaps the most well-known author of this type. But the many other rich talents in the volume may have treated the subject matter a little differently, or were perhaps just overlooked in the stampede to applaud the winner, but these authors are of equal merit. Each of their works is laden with talent, has purpose, and is rich and textured in this gloried niche of literature.1 - American Civil War Stories Not by Ambrose Bierce - An Introduction2 - The Locket by Kate Chopin3 - The Brothers by Louisa May Alcott4 - The Namesake by Willa Cather5 - The Veteran by Stephen Crane6 - The Man Without a Country by Edward Everett Hale7 - My Red Cap by Louisa May Alcott8 - Christmas Eve in War Times by Edward Payson Roe9 - The Gray Man by Sarah Orne Jewett"

Edward Everett Hale, Edward Payson Roe, Kate Chopin, Louisa May Alcott, Sarah Orne Jewett, Stephen Crane, Willa Cather (Author), Christopher Ragland, Eric Meyers, Laurel Lefkow (Narrator)

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Lessons from Literature - Stories Dealing With Racism

"Being curious, learning from all of our experiences, is one of our most pleasing traits as human beings. In this series we examine particular facets of ourselves and, with the aid of many classic authors, delve into characters and stories that not only entertain us, but inform us on how short stories can help us both deal and understand issues that touch and weave into our lives with the words and narratives of many wise talents.The evil stain of Racism blights much of humanity. Our own ambition to be seen as better than the rest can sometimes, without any evidence to the contrary, spill over into corrosive thoughts and actions based on colour, religion and culture. These stories examine and reveal much about this appalling travesty. 01 - Lessons From Literature - Racism - An Introduction2 - The Scapegoat by Paul Laurence Dunbar3 - Desiree's Baby by Kate Chopin4 - The Stones of the Village by Alice Dunbar Nelson5 - The Brothers by Louisa May Alcott6 - Breaking the Color Line by Annie McCary7 - The Octoroon's Revenge by Ruth D Todd8 - The Hoodoo by Martha Gruening9 - The Quadroons by Lydia Maria Child10 - The Wife of His Youth by Charles W Chesnutt11 - Talma Gordon by Pauline E Hopkins12 - The City of Refuge by Rudolph Fisher"

Alice Dunbar Nelson, Annie McCary, Charles W. Chesnutt, Kate Chopin, Louisa May Alcott, Lydia Maria Child, Martha Gruening, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Pauline E Hopkins, Rudolph Fisher, Ruth D Todd (Author), Darrell Joe, Ghizela Rowe, Warren Keyes (Narrator)

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