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The Awakening (Centaur Classics) [The 100 greatest novels of all time - #89]
The Awakening (Centaur Classics) [The 100 greatest novels of all time - #89]
The Awakening (Centaur Classics) [The 100 greatest novels of all time - #89]
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"I wanted them all, even those I’d already read." —Ron Rosenbaum

"A Creole Bovary is this little novel of Miss Chopin’s." —Willa Cather

"Beautifully written." —Edmund Wilson

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, her seduction, and her awakening to desires and passions that threated to consumer her. Originally entitled "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.
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Release dateMar 4, 2016
ISBN9788892561762
The Awakening (Centaur Classics) [The 100 greatest novels of all time - #89]
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Kate Chopin

Kate Chopin, born Katherine O'Flaherty (1850-1904), was an American writer of short stories and novels based in Louisiana. Chopin is best known for her novel The Awakening, and for her short story collections, Bayou Folk (1894) and A Night in Acadie (1897). Of French and Irish descent, her work depicted the various ethnic groups of Louisiana, especially of Creoles, with sensitivity and wit, and featured vivid descriptions of the natural environment there. After her husband died in 1882 and left her $42,000 in debt, Chopin took up writing to support her family of six children. Though popular, her serious literary qualities were overlooked in her day, and she is now seen as an important early American feminist writer.

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