the awakening and selected stories by kate chopin

Details Or fastest delivery Tuesday, April 25. The Awakening was written by American author Kate Chopin in 1899. The Awakening, and Selected Stories: Chopin, Kate: 9780140390223: : Books Buy new: 19.35 FREE delivery April 27 - May 4. Chopin tackles the issues and ideas that fuel the novels of Edith Wharton, Theodore Dreiser, Henry James, and other turn-of-the-century writers. The official blurb: You have been selected to attend Zodiac Academy, where your star. The Awakening is a low-key, exquisitely written, and only 130 pages long. Upon his death, his widow and six children were saddled with considerable debt. She married a Creole businessman and settled with him in Louisiana (the setting of The Awakening). A milestone in American fiction, The Awakening is an unforgettably poignant novel of self-discovery that has inspired generations of readers. The author, Kate Chopin, was Irish-American, born as Katherine O'Flaherty. As the heroine, Edna Pontellier, awakens to her own desires, she begins to question her ideas about marriage, motherhood, society, art, and the nature of love itself.

In the 1950s (I think) it was reprinted and emerged as a respected novel. It doesn't end well for her.Īfter its initial publication, The Awakening went out of print and was forgotten. The Awakening and Selected Stories of Kate Chopin by Kate Chopin 4.0 (2) Paperback (Mass Market Paperback - Enriched Classic) 6.99 Paperback 6.99 eBook 6. The story of a young married woman with children who tires of society's stifling customs, routines, and rules, who discovers her diligent, respectable, responsible, and seemingly loving husband is.well.kind of boring, and who awakens to the sensual pleasures of music, art, and, yes, physical love. Published in 1899, the novel roused quite a bit of shock, horror, righteous scolding, and that whole brouhaha.

The awakening and selected stories by kate chopin