Description: Please refer to the section BELOW (and NOT ABOVE) this line for the product details - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Title:The AwakeningISBN13:9780553213300ISBN10:055321330XAuthor:Chopin, Kate (Author)Description:First Published In 1899, This Beautiful, Brief Novel So Disturbed Critics And The Public That It Was Banished For Decades Afterward Now Widely Read And Admired, The Awakening Has Been Hailed As An Early Vision Of Woman's Emancipation This Sensuous Book Tells Of A Woman's Abandonment Of Her Family, Her Seduction, And Her Awakening To Desires And Passions That Threated To Consumer Her Originally Entitled A Solitary Soul, This Portrait Of Twenty-Eight-Year-Old Edna Pontellier Is A Landmark In American Fiction, Rooted Firmly In The Romantic Tradition Of Herman Melville And Emily Dickinson Here, A Woman In Search Of Self-Discovery Turns Away From Convention And Society, And Toward The Primal, From Convention And Society, And Toward The Primal, Irresistibly Attracted To Nature And The Sensesthe Awakening, Kate Chopin's Last Novel, Has Been Praised By Edmund Wilson As Beautifully Written And Willa Cather Described Its Style As Exquisite, Sensitive, And Iridescent This Edition Of The Awakening Also Includes A Selection Of Short Stories By Kate Chopin This Seems To Me A Higher Order Of Feminism Than Repeating The Story Of Woman As Victim Kate Chopin Gives Her Female Protagonist The Central Role, Normally Reserved For Man, In A Meditation On Identity And Culture, Consciousness And Art -- From The Introduction By Marilynne Robinson Kate Chopin Here Is The Story Of Edna Pontellier, A Young Wife And Mother Edna Experiences The First Pangs Of Passion And Desire--An Awakening So Intense That Edna Compromises Herself--Changing Her Life Forever Chopin's Portrayal Of A Woman's Quest For FreeBinding:Paperback, Mass Market PaperboundPublisher:BANTAM CLASSICSPublication Date:1985-04-01Weight:0.27 lbsDimensions:0.54'' H x 6.39'' L x 4.8'' WNumber of Pages:240Language:English
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Book Title: Awakening
Number of Pages: 240 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Topic: Psychological, Classics, Contemporary Women, Literary
Item Height: 0.6 in
Publication Year: 1985
Features: Reprint
Genre: Fiction
Item Weight: 4.1 Oz
Author: Kate Chopin
Item Length: 6.8 in
Item Width: 4.2 in
Format: Mass Market
