The Awakening: And Other Short Stories
- ISBN-10
- 1515091260
- ISBN-13
- 9781515091264
- Series
- The Awakening
- Pages
- 208
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2015-07-16
- Publisher
- CreateSpace
- Author
- Kate Chopin
Description
The Awakening shocked turn-of-the-century readers with its forthright treatment of sex and suicide. Departing 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 life are the themes of this now-classic novel. As Kaye Gibbons points out in her Introduction, Chopin "was writing American realism before most Americans could bear to hear that they were living it."
