The Awakening - by Kate Chopin (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>/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 free<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>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, <i>The Awakening</i> 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 senses<i>The Awakening</i>, 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 <i>The Awakening</i> also includes a selection of short stories by Kate Chopin. <p/>"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.<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Kate Chopin (1851-1904) did not begin to write until she was thirty-six years old. Up to that time, her life gave no hint of either literary talent or literary ambition. Yet after the publication of her first stories in 1889, she enjoyed ten years of a productive, serious, and fairly successful career. Her first novel, <i>At Fault</i> (1890), had difficulty finding a publisher, so she brought it out at her own expense and sent review copies to important journals. Her short stories--close to a hundred of them--were published for the most part in prestigious national magazines. They gave her a solid reputation as a gifted 'local color' writer--that is, an author specializing in the depiction of a particular region of the country and its inhabitants. From these many stories, she culled two well-reviewed collections: <i>Bayou Folk</i> in 1894 and <i>A Night in Acadie </i>in 1897. <i>The Awakening</i>, now her best-known work, appeared in 1899. <p/>Critics of Chopin's own day disapproved of the sexual frankness of <i>The Awakening</i> and were especially disturbed by the narrator's neutrality toward the unconventional behavior of Edna Pontellier, the heroine. All reviews of the novel were unfavorable. Soon after this setback, a planned third collection of short stories was rejected by a publisher, and Kate Chopin essentially ceased to write. In poor health, she died some five years after <i>The Awakening</i> appeared. She was only fifty-three.
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