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The American Classics Collection - Volume One: 15+ Novels, and Stories from HP Lovecraft, Ernest Hemingway, Mark Twain, Edith Wharton, Frederick Douglass, & More
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The Awakening is considered groundbreaking for its frank portrayal of women’s desires, ambitions, and sexuality. The novel is widely regarded as an early feminist work and a precursor to American modernist literature. Its blend of realism, social commentary, and psychological complexity drew comparisons to contemporaries like Henry James and Edith Wharton.
Featured Article: Who's the best? Rediscover the greatest, most notable American writers of all time
To curate a list of famous American writers who are also considered among the best American authors, a few things count: current ratings for their works, their particular time periods in history, critical reception, their prevalence in the 21st century, and yes, the awards they won. Many of these authors are taught in school today. From Hemingway to Harper Lee, these famous American authors are all worthy of enduring recognition—and a fresh listen!
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Ghost Stories from the Gilded Age
- By: Mary E. Braddon, Kate Chopin, Mary Cholmondeley, and others
- Narrated by: Amanda Stribling, Stephanie Németh-Parker, Nikki Zakocs, and others
- Length: 8 hrs
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Step beyond the lamplight and into the gilded darkness of a vanished world. Ghost Stories from the Gilded Age is a classic ghost story anthology featuring eerie tales by female authors who defied convention—Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Edith Wharton, Kate Chopin, and more.
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Ghost Stories from the Gilded Age
- Narrated by: Amanda Stribling, Stephanie Németh-Parker, Nikki Zakocs, John Pirhalla, Daniel Henning, Aven Shore, Tim Loubunis, Krystal Hammond, Andrew Gibson, Yinka Ladeinde
- Length: 8 hrs
- Release date: 10-22-25
- Language: English
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The American Classics Collection - Volume One: 15+ Novels, and Stories from HP Lovecraft, Ernest Hemingway, Mark Twain, Edith Wharton, Frederick Douglass, & More
- A Farewell to Arms, At the Mountains of Madness, Little Women, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Call of the Wild, The Great Gatsby, The Narrative Life of Frederick Douglass, Walden, & More
- By: Louisa May Alcott, Edgar Allan Poe, Henry David Thoreau, and others
- Narrated by: Kobna Holdbrook-Smith, Nathan Osgood, Robert G. Slade, and others
- Length: 120 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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The American Classics Collection is a century-spanning collection of 17 classic novels, short stories, essay, and poetry by American authors, read by a cast of incredible narrators.
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5* Collection of American Classics
- By James on 01-08-25
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The American Classics Collection - Volume One: 15+ Novels, and Stories from HP Lovecraft, Ernest Hemingway, Mark Twain, Edith Wharton, Frederick Douglass, & More
- A Farewell to Arms, At the Mountains of Madness, Little Women, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Call of the Wild, The Great Gatsby, The Narrative Life of Frederick Douglass, Walden, & More
- Narrated by: Kobna Holdbrook-Smith, Nathan Osgood, Robert G. Slade, Jonathan Keeble, Katherine Fenton, Peter Noble, William Hope
- Length: 120 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 01-01-25
- Language: English
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Short Stories About Suicide
- By: Guy de Maupassant, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Franz Kafka, and others
- Narrated by: Richard Mitchley, Laurel Lefkow, Mark Rice-Oxley
- Length: 15 hrs and 17 mins
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Life has the capacity of great moments and attainment, of lives well lived, fulfilling for ourselves and for those we touch. But for others life is arduous. There is no spark to ignite the curiosity, to explore and achieve a stability and a growth to their lives....
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A deep listen
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Short Stories About Suicide
- Narrated by: Richard Mitchley, Laurel Lefkow, Mark Rice-Oxley
- Length: 15 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 06-22-23
- Language: English
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The Awakening and Other Short Stories
- By: Kate Chopin
- Narrated by: Susie Berneis
- Length: 7 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 15
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 12
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 13
One of the earliest feminist works in American literature, "The Awakening" tells the story of Edna Pontellier. Unsatisfied with societal expectations and unhappy with her family life, she begins to fall in love with the dapper Robert Lebrun....
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No ending? Audio launches into the other stories
- By bombadillo on 10-01-21
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The Awakening and Other Short Stories
- Narrated by: Susie Berneis
- Length: 7 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 07-13-18
- Language: English
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The Awakening
- By: Kate Chopin
- Narrated by: Susie Berneis
- Length: 5 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 345
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 293
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Story4 out of 5 stars 291
Unsatisfied with the expectations of Creole society and unhappy with her family life, Edna Pontellier begins to fall in love with the dapper Robert Lebrun....
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Good story, great reading.
- By Donald on 03-14-17
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The Awakening
- Narrated by: Susie Berneis
- Length: 5 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 04-01-15
- Language: English
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The Awakening, and Selected Short Stories
- By: Kate Chopin
- Narrated by: Harriet Seed
- Length: 6 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Edna Pontellier has everything that a woman and mother should want - two wonderful sons, a husband, and good financial fortune. But still, she feels like something may be missing. While vacationing with her family, she meets a young man who shows affection....
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The Awakening, and Selected Short Stories
- Narrated by: Harriet Seed
- Length: 6 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 10-30-20
- Language: English
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The Awakening
- By: Kate Chopin
- Narrated by: Shelly Frasier
- Length: 5 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Edna Pontellier is married, twenty-eight, and at a crossroads in her life. She is passionate and artistic but has no one who understands her deep yearnings. She jumps at the chance to spend a summer away from her husband and the heat of New Orleans at a small coastal retreat.
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Amazing Story with So-So Narration
- By Lucy on 11-02-06
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The Awakening
- Narrated by: Shelly Frasier
- Length: 5 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 08-23-05
- Language: English
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Desiree's Baby
- Short Stories
- By: Kate Chopin
- Narrated by: Susie Berneis
- Length: 15 mins
- Unabridged
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In Désirée’s Baby, the adopted daughter of a wealthy prewar French Creole couple is courted by the son of another wealthy, respected French Creole family. After they marry, their child is born with dark skin and believed to have African ancestry....
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Desiree's Baby
- Short Stories
- Narrated by: Susie Berneis
- Length: 15 mins
- Release date: 07-24-18
- Language: English
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The Story of an Hour
- By: Kate Chopin
- Narrated by: Cathy Dobson
- Length: 7 mins
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Kate Chopin's brilliant short story about an hour in the life of a young wife....
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A brilliant little story
- By Areader on 10-05-14
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The Story of an Hour
- Narrated by: Cathy Dobson
- Length: 7 mins
- Release date: 05-06-13
- Language: English
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10 Masterpieces You Have to Read Before You Die, Vol. 2
- The Gold-Bug, Romeo and Juliet, Faust, the Adventures of Tom Sawyer, the Death of Ivan Ilyich, the Lost World, the Turn of the Screw, the Little Prince, the Picture of Dorian Gray, the Awakening
- By: Edgar Allan Poe, William Shakespeare, Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, and others
- Narrated by: David Miles, Luana Marantz, Abigail Reno, and others
- Length: 44 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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This book contains the following works: Edgar Allan Poe: The Gold Bug, William Shakespeare: Romeo And Juliet, Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe: Faust, Mark Twain ...
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Classics, all of them! Performances are wretched!
- By Alexis Meskill on 08-12-25
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10 Masterpieces You Have to Read Before You Die, Vol. 2
- The Gold-Bug, Romeo and Juliet, Faust, the Adventures of Tom Sawyer, the Death of Ivan Ilyich, the Lost World, the Turn of the Screw, the Little Prince, the Picture of Dorian Gray, the Awakening
- Narrated by: David Miles, Luana Marantz, Abigail Reno, Simon Jackson, Rick Walz, Kelli Winkler, Paul Gibson, Sharon Plummer
- Length: 44 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 02-18-25
- Language: English
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The Story of an Hour
- By: Kate Chopin
- Narrated by: Lyssa Browne
- Length: 8 mins
- Unabridged
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The title of this short story from 1894 refers to the time elapsed between the moments at which the protagonist, Louise Mallard, hears that her husband is dead, then discovers that he is alive after all. The short story is a mainstay of feminist literary study....
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The Story of an Hour
- Narrated by: Lyssa Browne
- Length: 8 mins
- Release date: 12-18-19
- Language: English
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The American Short Story - Complete
- A Chronological History - Complete in 7 Volumes
- By: Uriah Derrick D'Arcy, Herman Melville, Robert E. Howard, and others
- Narrated by: Darrell Joe, Eric Meyers, Christopher Ragland
- Length: 50 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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The American literary tradition has, in a far shorter span of time than others throughout history, achieved a glowing and glittering reputation. From its transatlantic roots it has absorbed the sons and daughters of other cultures, other lands and made them part of her own....
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The American Short Story - Complete
- A Chronological History - Complete in 7 Volumes
- Narrated by: Darrell Joe, Eric Meyers, Christopher Ragland
- Length: 50 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 02-14-25
- Language: English
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The Awakening (AmazonClassics Edition)
- By: Kate Chopin
- Narrated by: Mary Robinette Kowal
- Length: 6 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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On vacation in Grand Isle, Louisiana, a married woman falls in love with a charming, attentive young man. The relationship spurs Edna Pontellier to explore her longing for independence....
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Fix description! The Awakening AND OTHER STORIES
- By W. on 11-12-18
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The Awakening (AmazonClassics Edition)
- Narrated by: Mary Robinette Kowal
- Length: 6 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 01-10-18
- Language: English
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The Awakening
- By: Kate Chopin
- Narrated by: Kim Basinger
- Length: 5 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance3.5 out of 5 stars 319
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Kate Chopin’s novel, a landmark work of early feminism, is seen as a precursor to the works of American novelists such as William Faulkner and Ernest Hemingway.....
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Better to sleep in peace than awake to nightmare?
- By W Perry Hall on 02-01-14
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The Awakening
- Narrated by: Kim Basinger
- Length: 5 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 10-18-12
- Language: English
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The Top 10 Short Stories - American Realism
- By: Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Jack London, O Henry, and others
- Narrated by: Laurel Lefkow
- Length: 4 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. They can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that are difficult to achieve elsewhere.
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The Top 10 Short Stories - American Realism
- Narrated by: Laurel Lefkow
- Length: 4 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 08-20-24
- Language: English
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The Awakening
- By: Kate Chopin
- Narrated by: Maria Marquis
- Length: 5 hrs
- Unabridged
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Set in New Orleans at the close of the 19th century, The Awakening follows Edna Pontellier, who, while vacationing with her husband and their two sons, finds liberation from her prudish behavior and repressed emotions and desires....
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The Awakening
- Narrated by: Maria Marquis
- Length: 5 hrs
- Release date: 06-30-20
- Language: English
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The Awakening & more
- A Full-Cast BBC Radio Dramatisation
- By: Kate Chopin
- Narrated by: Briony Glassco, William Dufris, Lorelei King, and others
- Length: 2 hrs and 54 mins
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A full-cast adaptation of one of the earliest feminist works in American literature – plus a selection of Kate Chopin’s short stories.
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The Awakening & more
- A Full-Cast BBC Radio Dramatisation
- Narrated by: Briony Glassco, William Dufris, Lorelei King, Carolyn Pickles, Clare Corbett, full cast
- Length: 2 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 08-28-25
- Language: English
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A Pair of Silk Stockings
- Narrated by: Arielle DeLisle
- Length: 11 mins
- Release date: 12-04-13
- Language: English
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Short Stories About War
- By: Nathaniel Hawthorne, Victor Hugo, Ambrose Bierce, and others
- Narrated by: Richard Mitchley, Eric Meyers, Vincent Marzello
- Length: 12 hrs and 9 mins
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In this volume our classic authors including Victor Hugo, Thomas Wolfe, Ambrose Bierce, Ford Madox Ford and many others explore the many facets of war and its human dimensions.
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Short Stories About War
- Narrated by: Richard Mitchley, Eric Meyers, Vincent Marzello
- Length: 12 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 02-14-25
- Language: English
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Desiree's Baby
- By: Kate Chopin
- Narrated by: Canarit Audiobooks
- Length: 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Kate Chopin was born in Louisiana in 1850, and established her life there as a groundbreaking author, as the subject of her work included radical—for the time—ideas, such as feminism, race, and social change....
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Desiree's Baby
- Narrated by: Canarit Audiobooks
- Length: 14 mins
- Release date: 02-28-22
- Language: English
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