The Awakening & Other Stories

by Kate Chopin

2021-01-05 16:12:05

The best of Kate Chopin''s powerful feminist short stories, edited and introduced by Dr J. Michelle Coghlan.Readers and critics were scandalized by The Awakening when it was first published, but it is now regarded as among the boldest and earliest ex... Read more
The best of Kate Chopin''s powerful feminist short stories, edited and introduced by Dr J. Michelle Coghlan.Readers and critics were scandalized by The Awakening when it was first published, but it is now regarded as among the boldest and earliest examples of feminist fiction. It is published here with a selection of Chopin''s strikingly perceptive short stories and introduced by Dr J. Michelle Coghlan, a specialist in American literature.In The Awakening, Edna Pontellier is on holiday with her husband and two young children at a sleepy resort town on the Louisiana Gulf Coast. There, she is pursued by the charming and unmarried Robert Lebrun. Edna doesn''t play by the rules; flirtation turns into an affair that awakens in Edna her desire to break away from her passionless marriage, her children, and the strict conventions of nineteenth-century society. Less

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File size6.24 X 4.46 X 0.82 in
Print pages464
PublisherPan Macmillan
Publication date October 18, 2018
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9781509854127
Author
Kate Chopin (born Katherine O'Flaherty; February 8, 1850 – August 22, 1904) was an American author of short stories and novels based in Louisiana. She is now considered by some scholars to have been...

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