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The Awakening
And Other Stories
by Kate Chopin
ISBN: 0192823000
ISBN-13: 9780192823007
Format: Paperback
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Summary
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.
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"It is uncanny, nothing else...a masterpiece." -- Linda Wolfe
-- New York Times
"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."
-- Chicago Times-Herald (1895-1918)
"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." -- Willa Cather
-- Leader
"'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." -- Robert Cantwell
-- Georgia Review
"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
Bibliographic Details
Publisher: Oxford Univ Pr
Published date: 2000
Size: 5 x 7.75 inches
Weight: 0.7 pounds
Pages: 410
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Kate Chopin
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OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2000. NEW ED. Brand new. From her first stories, Kate Chopin was interested in independent characters who challenged convention. This selection enables readers to follow her unfolding career as she experimented with a broad range of writing, from tales for children to decadent fi ( more information) Offered by Thunder Books (United States)
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