The Awakening And Selected Stories of Kate Chopin (Signet Classics) - Softcover

Kate Chopin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0451524489 ISBN 13: 9780451524485

Publisher: Penguin, 1990

Synopsis

The pioneering short novel of feminist fiction is a sympathetic portrayal of a woman's discovery of the stifling bonds of her marriage and the strength of her own sexuality. First published in 1899, it shocked the popular taste of the day, outraged official morality, and destroyed the author's reputation and career. Today, however, this novel and Kate Chopin's other writings have found a highly receptive audience among a generation of women who have learned to value their own individuality and independence.

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Review:

Chopin's slight, brittle and fierce novel became a classic and a cult, shocking readers with its candid and unsentimental portrait of marital infidelity. Though the subject has lost its power to outrage, the novel has not, it remains delicately bitter and acidly angry --The Observer

Chopin cuts closer to the core of her heroine's feelings... The great power of The Awakening resides not in the answers it provides, but in the questions it exposes --Washington Post

It doesn't seem so daring now, but it's an inspiring model of personal crusading. Written in lyrical, restrained prose, this is not only a historical document of writer ahead of her time, but an enduringly good read. --The Scotsman

Book Description:

Edited with an Introduction, by Nina Baym

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0451524489
• ISBN 13: 9780451524485
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 320