Three Classics by American Women
Contributors: Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937; Cather, Willa, 1873-1947
Publisher: Bantam Books
Published: 1990 03
Place of publication: New York, N.Y., USA
Language: eng
Format: Mass Market Paperback
Number of pages: 404
ISBN-13: 9780553213829
Other titles: The Awakening; Ethan Frome; O Pioneers!; Ethan Frome.; O Pioneers!
Description: In one volume, readers now have access to three classic novels by outstanding American women authors.
THE AWAKENING by Kate Chopin
Jean Stafford wrote, "Kate Chopin was long before her time in dealing with sexual passion...and the personal emotions of women." The Awakening, which shocked its contemporary critics in 1899, is now considered a masterpiece, a novel that traces a woman's growing sensuality, search for identity, and final self-destruction--in a drama played out against the sultry climate and insulated culture of Creole New Orleans.

ETHAN FROME by Edith Wharton
"There are only three or four American novelists who can be thought of as 'major' and Edith Wharton is one", wrote Gore Vidal. In Ethan Frome, her most popular novel, Wharton tells a tragic story of thwarted love with irony and bitterness that seems to reflect the author's own dissatisfaction with twentieth-century American values.

O PIONEERS! by Willa Cather
Rebecca West called Willa Cather "the most sensuous of writers" because of her evocative descriptions of American life. Cather's magnificent tale of the Nebraska prairie, O Pioneers!, portrays a woman of strong will and even stronger desire to overcome adversity, bringing to life the prairie landscape in lush, provocative colors.
--back cover
Notes: "A Bantam Classic."
Table of contents: title: The awakening / Kate Chopin; title: Ethan Frome / Edith Wharton; title: O Pioneers! / Willa Cather.