The Story of an Hour

Kate Chopin

Aug 2020 · canarit · Narrated by canarit

About this audiobook

Feel Louise Mallard's emotional roller coaster, as she is informed by close friends from the local newsroom of her husband Brently’s death in a train accident and must find a way to cope with the loss.

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Credits:

Produced by: Canarit

Directed by: Gil Geva

Written by: Kate Chopin

Recoded and edited by: Shalev Alon

Performed by:

Brianne Bogle

Katherine Lee McEwon

Music and SFX:

Soundotcom

Adam Vitovsky

Soundly

About the author

Kate Chopin was born Katherine O'Flaherty in St. Louis, Missouri, on February 8, 1851. Although she was brought up in a wealthy and socially elite Catholic family, Chopin's childhood was marred by tragedies. Her father was killed in a train accident when Chopin was just four years old, and in the following years she also lost her older brother, great-grandmother, and half-brother. In 1870, at the age of 19, she married Oscar Chopin, the son of a wealthy cotton-growing family in Louisiana. The couple had seven children together, five boys and two girls, before Oscar died of swamp fever in 1883. The following year, Chopin packed up her family and moved back to St. Louis to be with her mother, who died just a year later. To support herself and her family, Chopin started to write. Her first novel, At Fault, was published in 1890. Her most famous work, The Awakening, inspired by a real-life New Orleans woman who committed adultery, was published in 1899. The book explores the social and psychological consequences of a woman caught in an unhappy marriage in 19th century America, is now considered a classic of the feminist movement and caused such an uproar in the community that Chopin almost entirely gave up writing. Chopin did try her hand at a few short stories, most of which were not even published. Chopin died on August 22, 1904, of a brain hemorrhage, after collapsing at the World's Fair just two days before.