Classic Women’s Short Stories
By Katherine Mansfield , Kate Chopin , and Virginia Woolf
Read by Carole Boyd , Liza Ross , and Teresa Gallagher
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3 Formats: CD
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3 Formats: Library CD
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3 Formats: MP3 CD
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ISBN: 9781094015538
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ISBN: 9781094015521
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ISBN: 9781094015545
| Runtime: | 2.65 Hours |
| Category: | Fiction/Classics |
| Audience: | Adult |
| Language: | English |
Summary
Summary
A 2003 Audie Award Winner for Best Narration of a Short Story Collection
Classic Women’s Short Stories features five stories from influential female writers of the nineteenth century and the first decades of the twentieth century.
New Zealand-born Katherine Mansfield settled in England where she wrote a series of short stories that are widely recognized as among the finest of the twentieth century for their economy, clarity, sensitivity, and effect. “The Garden Party” is one of her most famous, while “Daughters of the Late Colonel” shows a wonderful sense of wit.
Kate Chopin, writing in the last years of the nineteenth century, broke new ground with her daring view of women as individuals with human needs. “Lilacs” and “Ma’ame Pelagie” are sympathetic portraits of women with differing dilemmas.
Virginia Woolf’s “A Mark on the Wall” shows, in short story form, the turmoil within stillness which became a mark of her later novels.
Author
Author Bio: various authors
Titles by Author
Author Bio: Katherine Mansfield
Katherine Mansfield (1888–1923) was born in Wellington, New Zealand, and settled in Europe to finish her education. She published her first short fiction in The New Age, then in Rhythm, whose editor, the British writer and critic John Middleton Murry, she soon married. Her writing contributed to the development of the stream of consciousness technique and to the modernist use of multiple viewpoints, and her style has had a powerful influence on the development of the short story form.
Author Bio: Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf (1882–1941), one of the major literary figures of the twentieth century, transformed the art of the novel. She was a pioneer in the use of stream of consciousness as a narrative device. The author of numerous novels, collections of letters, journals, and short stories, she was also an admired literary critic and a master of the essay form.
Author Bio: Kate Chopin
Kate Chopin (1851–1904) was born in St. Louis. After marrying, she moved to Louisiana, where she raised six children. Chopin earned acclaim for her finely crafted short stories about the Creole and Cajun people of Louisiana. But her novel, The Awakening, was condemned for its controversial themes, which foreshadowed later feminist literature.
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Details
Details
| Available Formats : | CD, Library CD, MP3 CD |
| Category: | Fiction/Classics |
| Runtime: | 2.65 |
| Audience: | Adult |
| Language: | English |
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