The Awakening
By: Kate Chopin
Edition: printing (1)
Series: Canons -- 44
Publisher: Canongate
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Edinburgh
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 295
ISBN-13: 9781782114291
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: Fiction; Married women; General; FICTION
Description: Over one long, languid summer Edna Pontellier, fettered by marriage and motherhood gradually awakens to her individuality and sexuality and experiences love outside of her passionless marriage. But as she discovers emotional freedom so she comes to realise the true extent of her psychological and social confinement and its terrible consequences for her future.

THE AWAKENING is widely regarded as one of the forerunners of feminist literature alongside Tolstoy's Anna Karenina and Flaubert's Madame Bovary. First published in the United States in 1899, this radical novel sent shockwaves through American society and continues to speak to readers over one hundred years later.
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Notes: Originally published in 1899.
UK ed.