The Awakening
Subtitle: and Selected Stories
Publisher: Wordsworth Classics
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Ware, Hertfordshire
Language: eng
Format: paperback
Number of pages: 508
ISBN-13: 9781840225846
Copyright date: 2015
Description: This is the first paperback edition to bring out in one volume Kate Chopin's extraordinary novel The Awakening (1899), along with the complete text of her two collections of short stories, Bayou Folk (1894) and A Night in Acadie (1897), and twelve uncollected tales. 

The Awakening is a strikingly modern, evocative story of self-discovery and female emancipation, set in the sensuous environment of Southern Louisiana, where the young Edna Pontellier reclaims her own individuality, refusing to be defined by her roles of wife and mother. 

Chopin's stories are brilliantly observed, compassionate and often humorous, alert to the foibles, weaknesses and small triumphs of her characters. Overshadowed by the relatively recent fame of The Awakening, they contain some of the best work of this remarkably original author.
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Table of contents: title: INTRODUCTION; title: BIBLIOGRAPHY; title: THE AWAKENING; title: BAYOU FOLK; title: A No-Account Creole; title: In and Out of Old Natchitoches; title: In Sabine; title: A very Fine Fiddle; title: Beyond the Bayou; title: Old Aunt Peggy; title: The Return of Alcibiade; title: A Rude Avakening; title: The Bénitous Slave; title: Désirée's Baby; title: A Turkey Hunt; title: Madame Célestin's Divorce; title: Love on the Bon-Dieu; title: Loka; title: Boulöt and Boulotte; title: For Marse Chouchoute; title: A Visit to Avoyelles; title: A Wizard from Gettysburg; title: Ma'ame Pélagie; title: At the 'Cadian Ball; title: La Belle Zoraide; title: A Gentleman of Bayou Téche; title: A Lady of Bayou StJohn; title: A NIGHT IN ACADIE; title: A Night in Acadie; title: Athénafse; title: After the Winter; title: Polydore; title: Regret; title: A Matter of Prejudice; title: Caline; title: A Dresden Lady in Dixie; title: Nég Créol; title: The Lilies; title: Azélie; title: Mamouche; title: A Sentimental Soul; title: Dead Men's Shoes; title: At Chéniére Caminada; title: Odalie Misses Mass; title: Cavanelle; title: Tante Cat'rinette; title: A Respectable Woman; title: Ripe Figs; title: Ozeme's Holiday; title: UNCOLLECTED STORIES; title: Wiser Than a God; title: A Point at Issue!; title: Mrs Mobry's Reason; title: The Maid of Saint Phillippe; title: Dr Chevalier's Lie; title: The Story of an Hour; title: Lilacs; title: The Kiss; title: Her Letters; title: Fedora; title: A Pair of Silk Stockings; title: An Egyptian Cigarette; title: GLOSSARY; title: NOTES