"[This book presents] the complete text of The awakening by nineteenth-century American novelist Kate Chopin and contains biographical, historical, and cultural contexts, as well as critical essays that analyzes her work."--
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.
The power of sensuality, the delusion of ecstatic love, and the solitude that accompanies the trappings of middle- and upper-class convention are themes of this now-classic novel.
It includes nine excellent tales by one of the leading writers of the 19th century. This Large Print Edition is printed on high quality paper with a beautiful, durable cover.
Her important short stories included "Desiree's Baby," a tale of miscegenation in antebellum Louisiana (published in 1893), "The Story of an Hour" (1894), and "The Storm"(1898).
Bedford College Editions reprint enduring literary works in a handsome, readable, and affordable format. The text of each work is lightly but helpfully annotated.
The novel's blend of realistic narrative, incisive social commentary, and psychological complexity makes The Awakening a precursor of American modernist literature; it prefigures the works of American novelists such as William Faulkner and ...
Edna Pontellier, a young married woman with two small children in this story from 1899, gradually awakens to her individuality and sexuality and experiences love outside of her passionless marriage
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The novel's blend of realistic narrative, incisive social commentary, and psychological complexity makes The Awakening a precursor of American modernist literature.
The novel's blend of realistic narrative, incisive social commentary, and psychological complexity makes The Awakening a precursor of American modernist literature; it prefigures the works of American novelists such as William Faulkner and ...
And how ironic that all these reviews seem to be from women raging that this book (which they all obviously read for their 'gender theory' class) features a character who abandons her children.
In the summer of her 28th year, Edna Pontellier and her children, along with the wives and families of other prospective businessmen, spend the summer in an idyllic coastal community away from their husbands and the sweltering heat of 1890s ...
The Awakening, Kate Chopin. First published in 1899. Set in New Orleans and on the Louisiana Gulf coast at the end of the 19th century, the plot about a married woman seeking greater personal freedom and a more fulfilling life.
The novel's blend of realistic narrative, incisive social commentary, and psychological complexity makes The Awakening a precursor of American modernist literature; it prefigures the works of American novelists such as William Faulkner and ...
How is this book unique?
The novel's blend of realistic narrative, incisive social commentary, and psychological complexity makes The Awakening a precursor of American modernist literature; it prefigures the works of American novelists such as William Faulkner and ...
Selected Bibliography KATE CHOPIN : WORKS Seyersted , Per , ed . The Complete Works of Kate Chopin . Two volumes . Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press , 1969 . BIOGRAPHY Deyo , C. L. “ Mrs. Kate Chopin , ” St. Louis Life ...
The Awakening is the highly anticipated second volume in poet and storyteller Frank S. O'Neal's Fireside Chats: A Surrealist's View of the World series.
In this paranormal romance by the New York Times–bestselling author of Deadly Touch, sinister forces await a troubled married couple in Salem.