The Awakening and Selected Stories
Edition: Penguin Classics Reprint (19)
Series: Penguin Classics
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 1986
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 286
ISBN-13: 9780140390223
Copyright date: 1984
First sentence: A green and yellow parrot, which hung in a cage outside the door, kept repeating over and over: "Allez vous-en! Allez vous-en! Sapristi! That's all right!"
Description: A daring novel of a woman's sexual and spiritual rebirth

When it was published in 1899, charges of sordidness and immorality consigned this classic into initial obscurity and irreparably damaged its author's literary and social reputation.

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.

In her introduction, Sandra M. Gilbert considers the issues explored in the novel and the stories collected here--from their growth out of the feminist literary tradition of the nineteenth century, to their place among other concerns of fin de siécle writers in America and Europe, to their impact on contemporary feminist writing.
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Notes: USA/UK/CAN
Table of contents: title: Introduction: The Second Coming of Aphrodite; title: by Sandra M. Gilbert; title: Suggestions for Further Reading; title: A Note on the Text; title: THE AWAKENING; title: Emancipation: A Life Fable; title: At the 'Cadian Ball; title: Désirée's Baby; title: La Belle Zoraide; title: At Chéniére Caminada; title: The Story of an Hour; title: Athénaise; title: A Pair of Silk Stockings; title: Nég Créol; title: Elizabeth Stock's One Story; title: The Storm: A Sequel to "The 'Cadian Ball"