The Awakening and Selected Stories
by Chopin, Kate
- Used
- very good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Very Good/No d/j as Published
- ISBN 10
- 0142437328
- ISBN 13
- 9780142437322
- Seller
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About This Item
Synopsis
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.
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- Bookseller
- Fireside Bookshop (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 041415
- Title
- The Awakening and Selected Stories
- Author
- Chopin, Kate
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No d/j as Published
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0142437328
- ISBN 13
- 9780142437322
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2003
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾"
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature;
- X weight
- 9 oz
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