The Awakening by Kate Chopin
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The Awakening
The Awakening
Summary
Edna Pontellier is a young woman living comfortably in the beautiful city of New Orleans. She is fond of her husband and proud of her sons but finds it impossible to accept that "for women it is a holy privilege to efface themselves as individuals". She fights back in the only manner she knows.
The Awakening Summary
The Awakening Reviews
'Kate Chopin is a pioneer in the treatment of sexuality in American literature, discussing realistically, metaphorically and symbolically woman's desire to become a person in her own right, and the vexed question of the relationship between sex and love' The Sunday Times
About Kate Chopin
Kate Chopin was born in St Louis, Missouri in 1850. The Awakening was her third novel and was first published in 1899.
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GOR008388878
9780704347335
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The Awakening by Kate Chopin
Used - Well Read
Paperback
The Women's Press Ltd
2002-02-01
205
N/A
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