The Awakening Mass market paperbound - 1985
by Kate Chopin
/Kate Chopin Here is the story of Edna Pontellier, a young wife and mother. Edna experiences the first pangs of passion and desire--an awakening so intense that Edna compromises herself--changing her life forever. Chopin's portrayal of a woman's quest for free
About this book
“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
First line
A green and yellow parrot, which hung in a cage outside the door, kept repeating over and over: "Allez vous-en!
From the jacket flap
First published in 1899, this beautiful, brief novel so disturbed critics and the public that it was banished for decades afterward. Now widely read and admired, "The Awakening has been hailed as an early vision of woman's emancipation. This sensuous book tells of a woman's abandonment of her family, her seduction, and her awakening to desires and passions that threated to consumer her. Originally entitled "A Solitary Soul," this portrait of twenty-eight-year-old Edna Pontellier is a landmark in American fiction, rooted firmly in the romantic tradition of Herman Melville and Emily Dickinson. Here, a woman in search of self-discovery turns away from convention and society, and toward the primal, from convention and society, and toward the primal, irresistibly attracted to nature and the senses"The Awakening, Kate Chopin's last novel, has been praised by Edmund Wilson as "beautifully written." And Willa Cather described its style as "exquisite," "sensitive," and "iridescent." This edition of "The Awakening also includes a selection of short stories by Kate Chopin.
"This seems to me a higher order of feminism than repeating the story of woman as victim... Kate Chopin gives her female protagonist the central role, normally reserved for Man, in a meditation on identity and culture, consciousness and art." -- From the introduction by Marilynne Robinson.
First Edition Identification
Chicago, 1899, bound in pale green cloth, decoratively stamped in dark green and red; top edge gilt.
Details
- Title The Awakening
- Author Kate Chopin
- Binding Mass Market Paperbound
- Edition [ Edition: Repri
- Pages 240
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Bantam Classics, New York
- Date 1985-04-01
- Features Bibliography, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780553213300 / 055321330X
- Weight 0.27 lbs (0.12 kg)
- Dimensions 6.39 x 4.8 x 0.54 in (16.23 x 12.19 x 1.37 cm)
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Themes
- Cultural Region: Deep South
- Cultural Region: Gulf Coast
- Cultural Region: Mid-South
- Cultural Region: Southeast U.S.
- Geographic Orientation: Louisiana
- Locality: New Orleans, Louisiana
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
- Topical: Family
- Library of Congress subjects New Orleans (La.), Psychological fiction
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 98809289
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
Media reviews
Citations
- Entertainment Weekly, 09/04/2015, Page 44
- Newsweek, 08/09/2010, Page 54
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