The Awakening: And Other Stories (Oxford World's Classics) - Softcover

Chopin, Kate

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0192823000 ISBN 13: 9780192823007

Publisher: Oxford Paperbacks, 2000

Synopsis

'She wanted to swim far out, where no woman had swum before.' Kate Chopin was one of the most individual and adventurous of nineteenth-century american writers, whose fiction explored new and often startling territory. When her most famous story, The Awakening, was first published in 1899, it stunned readers with its frank portrayal of the inner word of Edna Pontellier, and its daring criticisms of the limits of marriage and motherhood. The subtle beauty of her writing was contrasted with her unwomanly and sordid subject-matter: Edna's rejection of her domestic role, and her passionate quest for spiritual, sexual, and artistic freedom. From her first stories, Chopin was interested in independent characters who challenged convention. This selection, freshly edited form the first printing of each text, enables readers to follow her unfolding career as she experimented with a broad range of writing, from tales for children to decadent fin-de siecle sketches. The Awakening is set alongside thirty-two short stories, illustrating the spectrum of the fiction from her first published stories to her 1898 secret masterpiece, 'The Storm'.

About this title

Review:

A Creole Bovary is this little novel of Miss Chopin's --Willa Cather

Book Description:

As heard on Radio 4, a new, elegant edition of The Awakening, introduced by Barbara Kingsolver

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford Paperbacks
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0192823000
• ISBN 13: 9780192823007
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 480
• Editor: Knights Pamela