The Awakening and Selected Stories
Edition: Special Markets hardcover edition (1)
Series: Classics of Modern Literature
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 2005-09
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 246
ISBN-13: 9780451530103
Copyright date: 1984
Other titles: The Awakening
Description: When The Awakening was first published in 1899, charges of sordidness and immorality seemed to consign it into obscurity and irreparably damage its author's literary and social reputation. But a century after her death, it is widely regarded as Kate Chopin's great achievement.

Through careful, subtle changes of style, Chopin shows the transformation of Edna Pontellier, a young wife and mother who--with tragic consequences--refuses to be caged by married and domestic life and claims for herself moral and erotic freedom
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Table of contents: title: Introduction : The second coming of Aphrodite by Sandra M. Gilbert --; title: Suggestions for further reading --; title: The awakening --; title: Emancipation : a life fable --; title: At the 'Cadian ball --; title: Desiree's baby --; title: La Belle zoraide --; title: At Cheniere Caminada --; title: The story of an hour --; title: Lilacs --; title: Athenaise --; title: A pair of silk stockings --; title: Neg Creol --; title: Elizabeth Stock's one story --; title: The storm : a sequel to "The 'Cadian Ball."