The Awakening and Selected Stories Paperback - 2003
by Kate Chopin
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Edna Pontellier, a young wife and mother, refuses to be caged by married and domestic life and claims for herself moral and erotic freedom. Through careful, subtle changes of style, Kate Chopin shows Edna's transformation--and its tragic consequences. This volume also includes some of Chopin's finest stories, among them "At the 'Cadian Ball" and "Desiree's Baby."
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- Title The Awakening and Selected Stories
- Author Kate Chopin
- Binding Paperback
- Edition [ Edition: Repri
- Condition Used - Acceptable
- Pages 288
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Publishing Group, New York
- Date 2003
- Bookseller's Inventory # G0142437328I5N00
- ISBN 9780142437322 / 0142437328
- Weight 0.44 lbs (0.20 kg)
- Dimensions 7.6 x 5 x 0.9 in (19.30 x 12.70 x 2.29 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Reading level 1030
- Library of Congress subjects Women - Louisiana, Louisiana - Social life and customs
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2003265744
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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Summary
The Awakening shocked turn-of-the-century readers and reviewers with its treatment of sex and suicide. In a departure from literary convention, Kate Chopin failed to condemn her heroine's desire for an affair with the son of a Louisiana resort owner, whom she meets on vacation. The power of sensuality, the delusion of ecstatic love, and the solitude that accompanies the trappings of middle- and upper-class convention are themes of this now-classic novel.
The book was influenced by French writers ranging from Flaubert to Maupassant, and can be seen as a precursor of the impressionistic, mood-driven novels of Virginia Woolf and Djuna Barnes. Variously called "vulgar," "unhealthily introspective," and "morbid," the book was neglected for several decades, not least because it was written by a "regional" woman writer.