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The Awakening and Selected Stories

The Awakening and Selected Stories

Paperback

Series: Modern Library Classics

Classic FictionGeneral FictionWomen's Studies

Publisher Price: $9.00

ISBN10: 0679783334
ISBN13: 9780679783336
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: Nov 14 2000
Pages: 448
Weight: 0.82
Height: 0.96 Width: 5.30 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Introduction by Kaye Gibbons
Edited and with notes by Nina Baym
Commentary by Elizabeth Blackwell, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and from The Picayune's Creole Cook Book

The Awakening shocked turn-of-the-century readers with its forthright treatment of sex and suicide. Departing from literary convention, Kate Chopin failed to condemn her heroine's desire for an affair with the son of a Louisiana resort owner whom she meets on vacation. The power of sensuality, the delusion of ecstatic love, and the solitude that accompanies the trappings of middle- and upper-class life are the themes of this now-classic novel. As Kaye Gibbons points out in her Introduction, Chopin was writing American realism before most Americans could bear to hear that they were living it. This edition includes selected stories from Chopin's Bayou Folk and A Night in Acadie.

Includes a Modern Library Reading Group Guide

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