num_pages: 112
description: The Awakening shocked turn-of-the-century readers with its forthright treatment of sex and suicide. Departing from literary convention, Kate Chopin failed to condemn her heroine's desire for an affair with the son of a Louisiana resort owner, whom she meets on vacation. The power of sensuality, the delusion of ecstatic love, and the solitude that accompanies the trappings of middle- and upper-class life are the themes of this now-classic novel. As Kaye Gibbons points out in her Introduction, Chopin "was writing American realism before most Americans could bear to hear that they were living it."
language: English
title: The Awakening and Selected Stories
titlecomplete: The Awakening and Selected Stories
genres: Read For School, Short Stories, American, Historical Fiction, School, Literature, Classic Literature, Classics, Feminism, Fiction
ratings_count: 2860
publisher: Digireads.Com