Author(s): Chopin, Kate
Reader(s): Ross, Liza
Label: Naxos AudioBooks
Genre: Classic Fiction
Period: Romantic
Catalogue No: NA210812
Barcode: 0730099010825
Release Date: 10/1996

CHOPIN, K.: Awakening (The) (Abridged)

This is the moving and powerful story of Edna Pontellier, a beautiful young wife and mother who discovers her true feelings and identity through her love for Robert Lebrun, and in so doing challenges the bourgeois assumptions of her day. First published in 1899 in America, it prompted shock and outrage, but has since come to be recognised as a modern classic.

Tracklist

Disc 1
Chopin, Kate - Author
Ross, Liza (Reader)
1 Mr. Pontellier, A Man Of Forty, His Beard Neatly Trimmed 11:36
Ross, Liza (Reader)
2 Mrs. Pontellier Was Not A Mother-Woman 04:32
Ross, Liza (Reader)
3 The Voice Of The Sea Speaks To The Soul 09:17
Ross, Liza (Reader)
4 Madame Raignolle Warns And Advises 03:22
Ross, Liza (Reader)
5 Mademoiselle Reisz, The Pianist 11:32
Ross, Liza (Reader)
6 Half-Awakened Senes... 03:43
Ross, Liza (Reader)
7 Asleep In Madame Antoine's Cot 06:46
Ross, Liza (Reader)
8 An Unexpected Farewell 05:56
Ross, Liza (Reader)
9 At The Beach With Mademoiselle Reisz 04:25
Ross, Liza (Reader)
10 The House On Esplanade Street, New Orleans 06:34
Ross, Liza (Reader)
11 A Few Sketches - And A Vision Of Appalling, Hopeless Ennui 10:16
Ross, Liza (Reader)
Disc 2
1 In The Top-Floor Flat Of Mademoiselle Reisz 05:01
Ross, Liza (Reader)
2 Mr. Pontellier Visits Dr. Mandelet 04:06
Ross, Liza (Reader)
3 Dinner With Edna's Father - And Dr. Mandelet 07:14
Ross, Liza (Reader)
4 To The Races With Alcee Arobin 06:47
Ross, Liza (Reader)
5 'I Am Going To Move Away From My House On Esplanade Street' 09:37
Ross, Liza (Reader)
6 A Final Party 07:58
Ross, Liza (Reader)
7 'Well, What Next?' 07:52
Ross, Liza (Reader)
8 A Surprise Visitor To The 'Pigeon House' 11:24
Ross, Liza (Reader)
9 In A Garden In The Suburbs 11:37
Ross, Liza (Reader)
10 Back To The Sea 06:32
Ross, Liza (Reader)

Total Playing Time: 02:36:07