| The Awakening: Introduction by Elaine Showalter Contributor(s): Chopin, Kate (Author), Showalter, Elaine (Introduction by) |
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ISBN: 0679417214 ISBN-13: 9780679417217 Publisher: Everyman's Library OUR PRICE: $21.60 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: November 1992 Annotation: In the summer of her 28th year, Edna Pontellier and her children, along with the wives and families of other prospective businessmen, spend the summer in an idyllic coastal community away from their husbands and the sweltering heat of 1890s' New Orleans. Aware of deep yearnings that are unfulfilled by marriage and motherhood, Edna plunges into an illicit liaison that reawakens her long dormant desires, inflames her heart, and eventually blinds her to all else. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Classics - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Women |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 92052897 |
| Lexile Measure: 960 |
| Series: Everyman's Library Classics |
| Physical Information: 0.88" H x 5.25" W x 8.33" (0.88 lbs) 272 pages |
| Accelerated Reader Info |
| Quiz #: 15836 Reading Level: 8.5 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 12.0 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Kate Chopin's riveting, daring story of one woman's search for personal freedom was so far ahead of its time that its publication in 1899 aroused a storm of controversy violent enough to end its author's career. With an effortless, sure-handed artistry, Chopin tells the story of Edna Pontellier, a young mother and model wife, whose romantic involvement with a young man during a vacation at a seaside resort allows her for the first time to imagine a new, freer life. Upon her return to New Orleans, Edna leaves her husband's home for her own cottage and begins an affair, only to discover that the constraints of social custom may be more powerful than she thought. Contemporary readers and reviewers were shocked by the frank, unapologetic treatment of adultery in The Awakening. The fact that we have the book at all is the most convincing tribute to its enduring, irrepressible power. Introduction by Elaine Showalter (Book Jacket Status: Not Jacketed) |