The Awakening
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This classic short novel - a surprisingly easy read - is often recommended for adolescent girls, struggling to both belong and be independent in a rigid society.
From the back cover:
First published in 1899, this beautiful, brief novel so disturbed critics and the public that it was banished for decades afterwards. 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, her seduction, and her awakenings to desires and passions that threaten to consume her. Originally titled 'A Solitary Soul', this portrait of twenty-eight-year-old Edna Pontellier is a landmark in American fiction, rooted firmly in the Romantic tradition of Herman Melville and Emily Dickinson. Here a woman engaged in self-discovery turns away from convention and society and toward the primal, irrisistibly attracted to nature and the senses. THE AWAKENING, Kate Chopin's last novel, has been praised by Edmund Wilson as "beautifully written" and Willa Cather described its style as "exquisite, sensitive and iridescent".
This edition also includes a selection of short stories by Kate Chopin.
From the back cover:
First published in 1899, this beautiful, brief novel so disturbed critics and the public that it was banished for decades afterwards. 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, her seduction, and her awakenings to desires and passions that threaten to consume her. Originally titled 'A Solitary Soul', this portrait of twenty-eight-year-old Edna Pontellier is a landmark in American fiction, rooted firmly in the Romantic tradition of Herman Melville and Emily Dickinson. Here a woman engaged in self-discovery turns away from convention and society and toward the primal, irrisistibly attracted to nature and the senses. THE AWAKENING, Kate Chopin's last novel, has been praised by Edmund Wilson as "beautifully written" and Willa Cather described its style as "exquisite, sensitive and iridescent".
This edition also includes a selection of short stories by Kate Chopin.
Journal Entry 2 by rem_BSQ-170388 at The Coffee Club on Taichang/Jinan Lu in Shanghai, Shanghai China on Friday, July 15, 2005
Released 18 yrs ago (7/15/2005 UTC) at The Coffee Club on Taichang/Jinan Lu in Shanghai, Shanghai China
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On or above the shelves with the stacks of magazines.
On or above the shelves with the stacks of magazines.
