The Awakening
By: Kate Chopin
Edition: printing (9)
Publisher: Vintage Books
Published: 2011
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 221
ISBN-13: 9780099540779
Subjects: Fiction; Married women; Adultery; Women
Description: The Pontellier family are spending a hot, lazy holiday on the Gulf of Mexico. No-one expects that Edna Pontellier should be preoccupied with anything more than her husband and children. When an illicit summer romance awakens new ideas and longings in Edna, she can barely understand herself, and cannot hope for aid or acceptance in the stifling attitudes of Louisiana society.

Kate Chopin's compelling, candid portrait of a woman attempting to break free caused an outcry when first published in 1899.
--back cover
Notes: UK/CAN