The Awakening & Other Stories
Series: Wordsworth American Classics
Publisher: Wordsworth American Library
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Ware, Hertfordshire
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 222
ISBN-13: 9781853265563
Copyright date: 1995
Subjects: 19th century fiction; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Fiction; FIC019000; FIC; Classics; Short Stories (single author); Literary
First sentence: A green and yellow parrot, which hung in a cage outside the door, kept repeating over and over: Allez vous-en!
Description: Edna Pontellier, married to a successful creole speculator from New Orleans, spends the summer on Grand Isle and falls in love. Her affair with Robert Lebrun awakens in her a new sense of spiritual and sexual self-awareness.

This tale of a mixed marriage and adultery so shocked Kate Chopin's contemporaries that it effectively ended her literary career. Today, it is recognized as a masterpiece of American feminist literature.

As well as the novella, The Awakening, this book contains fifteen of Chopin's short stories.
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Table of contents: title: The Awakening; title: Wiser than a god. --; title: A point at issue! --; title: A shameful affair. --; title: Miss McEnders. --; title: At the 'Cadian Ball. --; title: Desiree's baby. --; title: Madame Celestin's divorce. --; title: A Lady of Bayou St. John. --; title: La Belle Zoraide. --; title: A respectable woman. --; title: The story of an hour. --; title: Regret. --; title: The kiss. --; title: Athenaise. --; title: A pair of silk stockings.