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The Awakening and Selected Stories

By Kate Chopin
Introduction by Jane Smiley

By Kate Chopin
Introduction by Jane Smiley

By Kate Chopin
Introduction by Claire Vaye Watkins

By Kate Chopin
Introduction by Claire Vaye Watkins

By Kate Chopin
Introduction by Claire Vaye Watkins

By Kate Chopin
Introduction by Claire Vaye Watkins

By Kate Chopin
Introduction by Jane Smiley

By Kate Chopin
Introduction by Jane Smiley

By Kate Chopin
Introduction by Claire Vaye Watkins

By Kate Chopin
Introduction by Claire Vaye Watkins

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    About The Awakening and Selected Stories

    A feminist literary landmark: the daring story of a woman’s search for personal freedom that was so controversial in 1899 that it ended its author’s career.

    With an effortless, sure-handed artistry, Kate Chopin tells the story of Edna Pontellier, a young mother and model wife, whose romantic involvement with a young man at a seaside resort allows her for the first time to imagine a freer life. Upon her return to New Orleans, Edna leaves her husband’s home for her own cottage, pursues her artistic ambitions, and begins an affair, only to discover that the constraints of social custom are more powerful than she had thought. Contemporary readers were shocked by the frank, unapologetic treatment of adultery in The Awakening, but over the ensuing century the novel went on to achieve the status of a classic for its visionary prescience and narrative brilliance.

    About The Awakening and Selected Stories

    Kate Chopin’s groundbreaking depiction of a woman who dares to defy the expectations of society in the pursuit of her desire

    When The Awakening was first published in 1899, charges of sordidness and immorality seemed to consign it into obscurity and irreparably damage its author’s reputation. But a century after her death, it is widely regarded as Kate Chopin’s great achievement. Through careful, subtle changes of style, Chopin shows the transformation of Edna Pontellier, a young wife and mother, who – with tragic consequences – refuses to be caged by married and domestic life, and claims for herself moral and erotic freedom.

    For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

    About The Awakening and Selected Stories

    The groundbreaking depiction of a woman who dares to defy the expectations of society in the pursuit of her desire, with an insightful introduction by author Claire Vaye Watkins. 

    A Penguin Vitae Edition

    When Kate Chopin’s classic was first published in 1899, charges of sordidness and immorality seemed to consign it into obscurity and irreparably damage its author’s reputation. But a century after her death, The Awakening is widely regarded as Kate Chopin’s great achievement and a celebrated work of early feminist literature. Through careful, subtle changes of style, Chopin shows the transformation of Edna Pontellier, a young wife and mother, who – with tragic consequences – refuses to be caged by married and domestic life, and claims for herself moral and erotic freedom.

    Penguin Classics launches a new hardcover series with five American classics that are relevant and timeless in their power, and part of a dynamic and diverse landscape of classic fiction and nonfiction from almost seventy-five years of classics publishing. Penguin Vitae provides readers with beautifully designed classics that have shaped the course of their lives, and welcomes new readers to discover these literary gifts of personal inspiration, intellectual engagement, and creative originality.

    About The Awakening and Selected Stories

    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

    About The Awakening and Selected Stories

    Kate Chopin’s groundbreaking depiction of a woman who dares to defy the expectations of society in the pursuit of her desire

    When The Awakening was first published in 1899, charges of sordidness and immorality seemed to consign it into obscurity and irreparably damage its author’s reputation. But a century after her death, it is widely regarded as Kate Chopin’s great achievement. Through careful, subtle changes of style, Chopin shows the transformation of Edna Pontellier, a young wife and mother, who – with tragic consequences – refuses to be caged by married and domestic life, and claims for herself moral and erotic freedom.

    For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

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    About Kate Chopin

    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,… More about Kate Chopin

    About Kate Chopin

    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,… More about Kate Chopin

    About Kate Chopin

    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,… More about Kate Chopin

    About Kate Chopin

    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,… More about Kate Chopin

    About Kate Chopin

    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,… More about Kate Chopin

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    Category: Fiction Classics | Women’s Fiction | Literary Fiction

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    Published by Vintage
    Feb 21, 2023 | 368 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780593468791

    Category: Fiction Classics | Literary Fiction

    Paperback | $9.00
    Published by Penguin Classics
    Feb 04, 2003 | 288 Pages | 5-1/16 x 7-3/4 | ISBN 9780142437322

    Category: Fiction Classics | Literary Fiction

    Hardcover | $27.00
    Published by Penguin Classics
    Feb 25, 2020 | 288 Pages | 5-1/16 x 7-3/4 | ISBN 9780143134800

    Category: Fiction Classics | Women’s Fiction | Literary Fiction

    Ebook | $7.99
    Published by Vintage
    Feb 21, 2023 | 288 Pages | ISBN 9780593468807

    Category: Fiction Classics | Literary Fiction

    Ebook | $5.99
    Published by Penguin Classics
    May 01, 1984 | 288 Pages | ISBN 9781101200773
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