description: The Awakening tells of a wife who discovers the strength of her own sexuality and tries to wrench it from the hands of a patriarchal society- and her upper-class Cajun family.This and Chopin's other short stories are standard-setting masterpieces.
language: English
title: The Awakening and Selected Stories
titlecomplete: The Awakening and Selected Stories
genres: Fiction, Classics, Read For School, Classic Literature, American, Historical Fiction, Feminism, Literature, Short Stories, School
ratings_count: 2860
publisher: Signet Classics