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Awakening by Kate Chopin (1985, Mass Market)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherRandom House Publishing Group

ISBN-10055321330X

ISBN-139780553213300

eBay Product ID (ePID)4038422246

Product Key Features

Book TitleAwakening

Number of Pages240 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year1985

TopicPsychological, Classics, Contemporary Women, Literary

FeaturesReprint

GenreFiction

AuthorKate Chopin

FormatMass Market

Dimensions

Item Height0.6 in

Item Weight4.1 Oz

Item Length6.8 in

Item Width4.2 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN98-809289

Dewey Edition23

TitleLeadingThe

Dewey Decimal813.4

Edition DescriptionReprint

SynopsisFirst published in 1899, this beautiful, briefnovel so disturbed critics and the public that itwas banished for decades afterward. Now widely readand admired, The Awakening hasbeen hailed as an early vision of woman'semancipation. This sensuous book tells of a woman'sabandonment of her family, her seduction, and herawakening to desires and passions that threated toconsumer her. Originally entitled "A SolitarySoul," this portrait of twenty-eight-year-oldEdna Pontellier is a landmark in American fiction,rooted firmly in the romantic tradition of HermanMelville and Emily Dickinson. Here, a woman insearch of self-discovery turns away from convention andsociety, and toward the primal, from conventionand society, and toward the primal, irresistiblyattracted to nature and the senses TheAwakening , Kate Chopin's last novel, has beenpraised by Edmund Wilson as "beautifullywritten." And Willa Cather described its style as"exquisite," "sensitive," and"iridescent." This edition of TheAwakening also includes a selection ofshort stories by Kate Chopin. "This seems to me ahigher order of feminism than repeating the storyof woman as victim... Kate Chopin gives her femaleprotagonist the central role, normally reservedfor Man, in a meditation on identity and culture,consciousness and art." -- From theintroduction by Marilynne Robinson., First published in 1899, this beautiful, brief novel so disturbed critics & the public that it was banished for decades afterward., 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.

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