Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley door pickup 10am - 7pm 3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611

  • Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
The Awakening and Selected Stories

The Awakening and Selected Stories

Chopin, Kate
Smiley, Jane

Paperback

Series: Vintage Classics

Classic FictionGeneral FictionLiterary Fiction

Publisher Price: $10.00

ISBN10: 0593468791
ISBN13: 9780593468791
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: Feb 21 2023
Pages: 368
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.10 Depth: 7.90
Language: English
A feminist literary landmark: the daring story of a woman's search for personal freedom that was so controversial in 1899 that it ended its author's career.

With an effortless, sure-handed artistry, Kate Chopin tells the story of Edna Pontellier, a young mother and model wife, whose romantic involvement with a young man at a seaside resort allows her for the first time to imagine a freer life. Upon her return to New Orleans, Edna leaves her husband's home for her own cottage, pursues her artistic ambitions, and begins an affair, only to discover that the constraints of social custom are more powerful than she had thought. Contemporary readers were shocked by the frank, unapologetic treatment of adultery in The Awakening, but over the ensuing century the novel went on to achieve the status of a classic for its visionary prescience and narrative brilliance.

5 different editions

Also available

Also from

Chopin, Kate

View All

Also in

Classic Fiction

View All