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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 Jane Smiley

By Kate Chopin
Introduction by Jane Smiley

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Feb 21, 2023 | ISBN 9780593468791

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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

    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.

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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

    Product Details

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

    Paperback | $10.00
    Published by Vintage
    Feb 21, 2023 | 368 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780593468791

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

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

    "A Creole Bovary is this little novel of Miss Chopin’s."
    –Willa Cather

    Table Of Contents

    Introduction by Jane Smiley

    The Awakening

    Selected Stories

        Wiser Than a God
        A Point at Issue!
        A Shameful Affair
        Miss McEnders
        At the ’Cadian Ball
        Désirée’s Baby
        At Chênière Caminada
        The Story of an Hour
        Lilacs
        The Kiss
        Athénaïse
        A Pair of Silk Stockings

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