Length4h 51m
About this audiobook
First published in 1899, this revolutionary novel so disturbed critics and the public that it was banished for decades afterward. Now widely read and admired, The Awakening has been hailed as an early vision of woman's emancipation. Rooted in the romantic tradition of Melville and Dickinson, it is the story of twenty-eight-year-old Edna Pontellier, a surprisingly modern woman trapped in a dehumanizing marriage and in search of self-discovery. Turning away from convention and society toward her primal instincts for passion and freedom, Edna abandons her family to realize herself as an individual. But her quest leads to her destruction by a society that grants no place for those unfulfilled by marriage and motherhood.
Set in New Orleans and the Southern Louisiana coast, The Awakeningis one of the most important novels written by an American woman in the nineteenth century and a landmark work of early feminism.
Audiobook details
Rating★★★★ 3.8 (273.5K)
Includes Goodreads, StoryGraph, LibraryThing, Amazon
GenreLiterary Classics, General Fiction
Length4 hrs 51 mins
Narrated byGrace Conlin
FormatAudiobook
Publish dateJan 1, 2006
LanguageEnglish
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