The Awakening by Kate Chopin (1996, Hardcover) 
The Awakening by Kate Chopin (1996, Hardcover)

 
The Awakening by Kate Chopin (1996, Hardcover)

Author: Kate Chopin
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Publication Date: 1996-11-01
Language: English
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-10: 0684819120
ISBN-13: 9780684819129
Product ID: EPID118951
Description: Kate Chopin's novel is a probing psychological study of a woman who, oppressed by family life and her romantic difficulties, drowns herself in the ocean. It is also an examination of a particular culture at the end of the 19th century: t...
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Synopsis
Kate Chopin's novel is a probing psychological study of a woman who, oppressed by family life and her romantic difficulties, drowns herself in the ocean. It is also an examination of a particular culture at the end of the 19th century: the aristocratic society of southern Louisiana. Condemned at the time it was written, THE AWAKENING has been valued in later years for its unflinching honesty and sexual frankness.

Details
Publication Date:1996-11-01

Size
Length:140 pages
Height:10.0 in
Width:7.3 in
Thickness:0.8 in
Weight:16.8 oz

Publisher's Note
In turn-of-the-century New Orleans, Edna Pontellier, a woman who feels trapped in her stifling role as wife and mother, falls passionately in love with another man.

Industry Reviews
"It is uncanny, nothing else...a masterpiece."
New York Times - Linda Wolfe

"A Creole 'Bovary' is this little novel...and I shall not attempt to say why Miss Chopin has devoted so exquisite and sensitive, well-governed a style to so trite and sordid a theme."
Leader - Willa Cather (07/08/1899)

"'The Awakening' seems to me to be the finest novel of its sort written by an American, and to rank among the world's masterpieces of short fiction."
Georgia Review - Robert Cantwell

"Denounced at the time of its original publication in 1899, and out of print for decades, 'The Awakening' is an American masterpiece: the brilliantly conceived story of a woman's 'awakening' to erotic love, and to her predicament in a patriarchal society."
Joyce Carol Oates

"A Creole Bovery is this little novel of Miss Chopin's."
Willa Cather

"It was not necessary for a writer of so great refinement and poetic grace to enter the over-worked world of sex-fiction...This is not a pleasant story."
Garrett

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