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Kate Chopin's riveting, daring story of one woman's search for personal freedom was so far ahead of its time that its publication in 1899 aroused a storm of controversy violent enough to end its author's career. Â
With an effortless, sure-handed artistry, Chopin tells the story of Edna Pontellier, a young mother and model wife, whose romantic involvement with a young man during a vacation at a seaside resort allows her for the first time to imagine a new, freer life. Upon her return to New Orleans, Edna leaves her husband's home for her own cottage and begins an affair, only to discover that the constraints of social custom may be more powerful than she thought. Contemporary readers and reviewers were shocked by the frank, unapologetic treatment of adultery in The Awakening. The fact that we have the book at all is the most convincing tribute to its enduring, irrepressible power.Â
Introduction by Elaine Showalter
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About: Edna Pontellier, a young married woman with two small children, gradually awakens to her individuality and sexuality and experiences love outside of her passionless marriage.
About: The AwakeningA Solitary SoulBy Kate ChopinTop 100 Classic Novels The Awakening, originally titled A Solitary Soul, is a novel by Kate Chopin, first published in 1899.
This edition also contains First Dictionary for Young Readers
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