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Awakening Mass market paperbound - 1982
by Kate Chopin
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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' New Orleans. Aware of deep yearnings that are unfulfilled by marriage and motherhood, Edna plunges into an illicit liaison that reawakens her long dormant desires, inflames her heart, and eventually blinds her to all else.
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The Awakening by Kate Chopin is an important work. Published in Chicago in 1899, this is often hailed as a precursor to modern feminist literature.
“She was becoming herself and daily casting aside that fictitious self which we assume like a garment with which to appear before the world.”
“She was becoming herself and daily casting aside that fictitious self which we assume like a garment with which to appear before the world.”
Summary
Discontented with her comfortable but stagnant marriage, a New Orleans woman on vacation with her family meets several remarkable women and two desirable men who set her off on a different and difficult path: to live according to her own needs rather than in accordance with the rigid standards of society. First published in 1899, this book was rediscovered in the 1960s and pronounced a feminist classic for its open treatment of a woman's search for self-understanding.
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A green and yellow parrot, which hung in a cage outside the door, kept repeating over and over: "Allez vous-en! Allez vous-en! Sapristi! That's all right!"
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"She grew daring and reckless. Overestimating her strength. She wanted to swim far out. Where no woman had swum before."
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Chicago, 1899, bound in pale green cloth, decoratively stamped in dark green and red; top edge gilt.
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- Title Awakening
- Author Kate Chopin
- Binding Mass Market Paperbound
- Edition [ Edition: Repri
- Pages 192
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher William Morrow & Company, New York
- Publication date 1982-02-10
- ISBN 9780380002450 / 0380002450
- Weight 0.21 lbs (0.10 kg)
- Dimensions 6.86 x 4.12 x 0.54 in (17.42 x 10.46 x 1.37 cm)
- Reading level 960
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 1851-1899
- Cultural Region: Deep South
- Cultural Region: Gulf Coast
- Cultural Region: Mid-South
- Cultural Region: Southeast U.S.
- Cultural Region: South
- Geographic Orientation: Louisiana
- Locality: New Orleans, Louisiana
- Sex & Gender: Lesbian
- Category Literature - Classics / Criticism
- Library of Congress subjects New Orleans (La.), Love stories
- Library of Congress Catalogue Number 00002575
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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