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The Awakening

By Kate Chopin

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The Awakening

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Kate Chopin’s classic feminist novel about a woman’s abandonment of her family, her seduction, and her introduction to desires and passions that threaten to consume her “This seems to me a higher order of feminism than repeating the story of woman as victim. . . . Kate Chopin gives her female protagonist the central role, normally reserved for Man, in a meditation on identity and culture, consciousness and art.”—From the introduction by Marilynne Robinson. First published in 1899, this beautiful, brief novel so disturbed critics and the public that it was banished for decades afterward. Now widely read and admired, The Awakening has been hailed as an early vision of woman’s emancipation. Originally entitled “A Solitary Soul,” this portrait of twenty-eight-year-old Edna Pontellier is a landmark in American fiction, rooted firmly in the Romantic tradition of Herman Melville and Emily Dickinson. Here, a woman engaged in self-discovery turns away from convention and society, and toward the primal, irresistibly attracted to nature and the senses. The Awakening, Kate Chopin’s last novel, has been praised by Edmund Wilson as “beautifully written.” And Willa Cather described its style as “exquisite,” “sensitive,” and “iridescent.” This edition of The Awakening also includes a selection of short stories by Kate Chopin.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
240
Release Date:
1985-04-01
Publication Date:
1985-04-01
Publisher:
Random House Publishing Group
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
055321330X
ISBN13:
9780553213300
Weight:
127 g
Height:
108 cm
Width:
176 cm
Thickness:
17 cm

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