The Awakening and Selected Stories
- ISBN-10
- 1470193477
- ISBN-13
- 9781470193478
- Series
- The Awakening and Selected Stories
- Category
- Fiction
- Pages
- 244
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2012-03-06
- Author
- Kate Chopin
Description
"The Awakening" is a novel by Kate Chopin, first published in 1899. Set in New Orleans and the Southern Louisiana coast at the end of the nineteenth century, the plot centers around Edna Pontellier and her struggle to reconcile her increasingly unorthodox views on femininity and motherhood with the prevailing social attitudes of the turn-of-the-century South. It is one of the earliest American novels that focuses on women's issues without condescension. It is also widely seen as a landmark work of early feminism. The novel's blend of realistic narrative, incisive social commentary, and psychological complexity makes The Awakening a precursor of American modernism; it prefigures the works of American novelists such as William Faulkner and Ernest Hemingway and echoes the works of contemporaries such as Edith Wharton and Henry James. It can also be considered among the first Southern works in a tradition that would culminate with the modern masterpieces of Faulkner, Flannery O'Connor, Eudora Welty, Katherine Anne Porter, and Tennessee Williams. Contents: The Awakening Beyond The Bayou Ma'ame Pelagie Desiree's Baby A Respectable Woman The Kiss A Pair Of Silk Stockings The Locket A Reflection Einstein Books' edition of "The Awakening And Selected Stories" contains supplementary texts: * "At Fault", by Kate Chopin. * "The Yellow Wallpaper", by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. * A few selected quotes of Kate Chopin.
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