The Awakening and Selected Stories
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The Awakening and Selected Stories
By Kate ChopinThe groundbreaking depiction of a woman who dares to defy the expectations of society in the pursuit of her desire, with an insightful introduction by author Claire Vaye Watkins, now a part of the Penguin Vitae series.
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The Awakening and Selected Stories
By Kate ChopinElizabeth Blackwell (1826-1910) [Elizabeth Blackwell was a pioneering woman physician. This letter, written in 1848, testifies to ideas that were in the air all during Kate Chopin's life.] ... It is true, I look neither for praise nor ...
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The Awakening and Selected Stories
By Kate ChopinIt 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 ...
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The Awakening and Selected Stories
By Kate ChopinAs Kaye Gibbons points out in her Introduction, Chopin “was writing American realism before most Americans could bear to hear that they were living it.” This edition includes selected stories from Chopin’s Bayou Folk and A Night in ...
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The Awakening and Selected Stories
By Kate ChopinAthénaïse was to take her meals in the house , which none of the other lodgers did ; the one exception being that Mr. Gouvernail was served with breakfast on Sunday mornings . Sylvie's clientèle came chiefly from the southern parishes ...
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The Awakening and Selected Stories
By Kate ChopinThe 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.
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The Awakening and Selected Stories
By Kate ChopinA feminist literary landmark: the daring story of a woman's search for personal freedom that was so controversial in 1899 that it ended its author's career.