The Awakening and Selected Stories (Penguin Classics)
by Kate Chopin
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- Paperback
- Condition
- Used; Good
- ISBN 10
- 0140390227
- ISBN 13
- 9780140390223
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Synopsis
The Awakening shocked turn-of-the-century readers and reviewers with its treatment of sex and suicide. In a departure 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 convention are themes of this now-classic novel. The book was influenced by French writers ranging from Flaubert to Maupassant, and can be seen as a precursor of the impressionistic, mood-driven novels of Virginia Woolf and Djuna Barnes. Variously called "vulgar," "unhealthily introspective," and "morbid," the book was neglected for several decades, not least because it was written by a "regional" woman writer.
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- Bookseller
- Greener Books Ltd (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- mon0002053808
- Title
- The Awakening and Selected Stories (Penguin Classics)
- Author
- Kate Chopin
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used; Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0140390227
- ISBN 13
- 9780140390223
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 09/27/1984
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