| The Awakening Contributor(s): Chopin, Kate (Author) |
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ISBN: 055321330X ISBN-13: 9780553213300 Publisher: Bantam Classics OUR PRICE: $4.46 Product Type: Mass Market Paperbound - Other Formats Published: April 1985 Annotation: First published in 1899, this beautiful, brief novel so disturbed critics and the public that it was banished for decades afterward. Now widely read and admired, "The Awakening has been hailed as an early vision of woman's emancipation. This sensuous book tells of a woman's abandonment of her family, her seduction, and her awakening to desires and passions that threated to consumer her. Originally entitled "A Solitary Soul," this portrait of twenty-eight-year-old Edna Pontellier is a landmark in American fiction, rooted firmly in the romantic tradition of Herman Melville and Emily Dickinson. Here, a woman in search of self-discovery turns away from convention and society, and toward the primal, from convention and society, and toward the primal, irresistibly attracted to nature and the senses"The Awakening, Kate Chopin's last novel, has been praised by Edmund Wilson as "beautifully written." And Willa Cather described its style as "exquisite," "sensitive," and "iridescent." This edition of "The Awakening also includes a selection of short stories by Kate Chopin. "This seems to me a higher order of feminism than repeating the story of woman as victim... Kate Chopin gives her female protagonist the central role, normally reserved for Man, in a meditation on identity and culture, consciousness and art." -- From the introduction by Marilynne Robinson. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Classics - Fiction | Women - Fiction | Short Stories (single Author) |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 98809289 |
| Physical Information: 0.54" H x 4.8" W x 6.39" (0.27 lbs) 240 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Deep South - Cultural Region - Gulf Coast - Geographic Orientation - Louisiana - Sex & Gender - Feminine - Locality - New Orleans, Louisiana - Cultural Region - Mid-South - Cultural Region - Southeast U.S. - Topical - Family |
| Accelerated Reader Info |
| Quiz #: 15836 Reading Level: 8.5 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 12.0 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: First published in 1899, this beautiful, brief novel so disturbed critics and the public that it was banished for decades afterward. Now widely read and admired, The Awakening has been hailed as an early vision of woman's emancipation. This sensuous book tells of a woman's abandonment of her family, her seduction, and her awakening to desires and passions that threated to consumer her. Originally entitled "A Solitary Soul," this portrait of twenty-eight-year-old Edna Pontellier is a landmark in American fiction, rooted firmly in the romantic tradition of Herman Melville and Emily Dickinson. Here, a woman in search of self-discovery turns away from convention and society, and toward the primal, from convention and society, and toward the primal, irresistibly attracted to nature and the sensesThe Awakening, Kate Chopin's last novel, has been praised by Edmund Wilson as "beautifully written." And Willa Cather described its style as "exquisite," "sensitive," and "iridescent." This edition of The Awakening also includes a selection of short stories by Kate Chopin. "This seems to me a higher order of feminism than repeating the story of woman as victim... Kate Chopin gives her female protagonist the central role, normally reserved for Man, in a meditation on identity and culture, consciousness and art." -- From the introduction by Marilynne Robinson. |