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Awakening by KATE CHOPIN
Category: Fiction | Series: Foundations of Feminist Fiction Ser.
Now recognised as a pioneering exploration of gender freedom, from an era when female agency was rare and shocking. Written in the late Victorian era The Awakening features a young woman who flings aside the norms of society and rejects her role as wife and mother. She abandons her family for a hedonist ...Show more
Pair of Silk Stockings: Little Black Classics: Penguin 80s No. 66 by Kate Chopin
Category: Classic Fiction
'At night, among the reeds on the bayou, Chicot could still hear the woman's wail, mingled now with the croaking of the frogs...' From Louisiana's remote bayous to its gilded cities, five startling stories of awakening by one of fin-de-siécle America's most daring writers. From the series Little Black ...Show more
The Awakening by Kate Chopin
Category: Fiction
Published in 1899, The Awakening ignited a firestorm of controversy. Reviewers criticized the book for its tacit endorsement of adultery, its frank depiction of a woman's sexual frustration, and its overt rejection of conventional expectations for women's roles and behaviour. Chopin's best-known and acc ...Show more
The Awakening by Kate Chopin
Category: Collins Classics | Series: Collins Classics
HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'I would give up the unessential; I would give my money, I would give my life for my children; but I wouldn't give myself.' Heralded as one of the first instances of feminist literature and rejected at its time of p ...Show more
The Awakening by Kate Chopin
Category: Classics | Series: Torchbearers Ser.
"An exciting repackage of Kate Chopin's classic novel as part of the Modern Library's "Torchbearer" series, featuring a new introduction written by National Book Award finalist, Carmen Maria Machado. The Awakening shocked turn-of-the-century readers and reviewers with its treatment of sex and suicide. ...Show more
The Awakening by Kate Chopin
Category: Fiction
This is introduced by Barbara Kingsolver. Over one long, languid summer Edna Pontellier, fettered by marriage and motherhood, becomes acquainted with Robert Lebrun. As the days shorten and the temperature begins to drop Edna succumbs to Robert's devotion. But in the thrall of this ever-strengthening des ...Show more
The Awakening by Kate Chopin
Category: Fiction | Series: Little Clothbound Classics Ser.
Introducing Little Clothbound Classics- irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-SmithThis candid portrayal of a woman who refuses to accept her allotted role as wife and mother caused an outcry wh ...Show more
The Awakening by Kate Chopin
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
When first published in 1899, The Awakening shocked readers with its honest treatment of female marital infidelity. Audiences accustomed to the pieties of late Victorian romantic fiction were taken aback by Chopin's daring portrayal of a woman trapped in a stifling marriage, who seeks and finds passiona ...Show more
The Awakening by Kate Chopin
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: The\Penguin English Library
The Awakening originally titled, A Solitary Soul, first published in 1899. Set in New Orleans and the Southern Louisiana coast at the end of the nineteenth century, the plot centers on Edna Pontellier and her struggle to reconcile her increasingly unorthodox views on femininity and motherhood with the ...Show more
The Awakening by Kate Chopin
Category: Fiction | Series: Canons
'Introducing this release of The Awakening has given me an opportunity to re-experience one of my life's important books . . . I still marvel at Chopin's realism, her impatience with conventional trappings, her arresting honesty' BARBARA KINGSOLVER'Incisive, brilliant and haunting' MAGGIE O'FARRELLOver ...Show more
The Awakening by Kate Chopin
Category: Fiction | Series: Dover Thrift Editions
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. This sensuous book tells of a woman's abandonment of her family, h ...Show more
The Awakening: Annotated Edition (Alma Classics Evergreens) by Kate Chopin
Category: Fiction | Series: Evergreens Ser.
Complete and unabridged paperback edition.The Awakening is a novel by Kate Chopin, first published in 1899. Set in New Orleans and on the Louisiana Gulf coast at the end of the 19th century, the plot centers on Edna Pontellier and her struggle between her increasingly unorthodox views on femininity and ...Show more