The Awakening by Kate Chopin

Just Sleep - Bedtime Stories for Adults

Taesha Glasgow

Stories To Help You Sleep, Health & Fitness, Alternative Health, Mental Health, Just Sleep, Bedtime Stories For Adults

4 • 748 Ratings

🗓️ 26 August 2021

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Tonight's sleep story is The Awakening by Kate Chopin. Published in 1899, this novel is considered by many to be a landmark work of early feminism. In this episode, Edna Pontellier starts to feel uneasy about her life while on vacation.

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0:00.0	Good evening. Welcome to the Just Sleep podcast. I'm Tasia, your host. Every week, I will read you
0:17.1	an old story to help you relax, put the stressful day behind you, and drift off to sleep.
0:34.1	Occasionally, we will run ads in order to cover the costs of the production of the podcast.
0:42.0	Rest assured, there will be no ads during or after the story.
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0:59.3	Visit JustSleeppodcast.com
1:02.7	slash support for more information.
1:09.4	Do, do, do, do! Bampa!
1:16.6	Bampa! Bampa!
1:19.6	Okay, enough Rasmataz! But it's not every day a new scratch card drops.
1:24.4	With the new set for five years scratch card from the national lottery.
1:28.7	You could win five grand a month every month for five years.
1:32.4	Pick up yours in store today and get scratching.
1:35.6	Search Dream Big Place Mall. Rules, procedures and game specific rules apply.
1:38.4	Place must be 18 or over.
1:50.2	Tonight I will be reading The Awakening by Kate Chopin.
1:58.9	So lie down, close your eyes, and let me read you a story.
2:02.7	One.
2:10.6	A green and yellow parrot, which hung in a cage outside the door, kept repeating over and over, Allé vos on, all right.
2:16.0	He could speak a little Spanish, and also a language which nobody understood,
2:21.4	unless it was the mockingbird that hung on the other side of the door,
2:26.0	whistling his flutty notes out upon the breeze with maddening persistence.
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