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The Awakening

A Novel

A Novel

By Kate Chopin
Introduction by Carmen Maria Machado

By Kate Chopin
Introduction by Carmen Maria Machado

By Kate Chopin

By Kate Chopin

By Kate Chopin
Introduction by Carmen Maria Machado

By Kate Chopin
Introduction by Carmen Maria Machado

By Kate Chopin

By Kate Chopin

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Part of Modern Library Torchbearers

Part of Modern Library Torchbearers

Paperback $9.00

Jun 18, 2019 | ISBN 9781984854360

Mass Market Paperback $4.95

Apr 01, 1985 | ISBN 9780553213300

Ebook $8.99

Jun 18, 2019 | ISBN 9781984854384

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Jun 03, 2003 | ISBN 9780553897630

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    About The Awakening

    A new edition of Kate Chopin’s controversial masterpiece, an essential novel in the canon of early feminism—with an introduction by Carmen Maria Machado, award-winning author of Her Body and Other Parties.

    “Whatever came, she had resolved never again to belong to another than herself.” 

    With its forthright treatment of sex and depression, The Awakening, first published in 1899, was so shocking to turn-of-the-century readers that it was neglected for decades. Rediscovered in the 1960s, this brief, beautiful novel is considered a landmark of early feminism. It is the story of Edna Pontellier, a twenty-eight-year-old wife and mother of two who—with devastating consequences—rejects her conventional married life for a transgressive path of self-discovery.

    Edna is vacationing with her husband and children on the Louisiana Gulf Coast when she meets and falls in love with the passionate, impulsive Robert Lebrun. Afterward, Edna can no longer find meaning and satisfaction in her comfortable domestic life and moves out, alone. Her tragic quest for personal, creative, and erotic freedom is at the heart of this now-classic novel which captures women’s desires with extraordinary frankness, sympathy, and intensity. 

    The Modern Library Torchbearers series features women who wrote on their own terms, with boldness, creativity, and a spirit of resistance.

    About The Awakening

    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.

    About The Awakening

    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.

    About The Awakening

    The Awakening
    by Kate Chopin


    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 threaten to consume 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 engaged in self-discovery turns away 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.

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    The Awakening and Selected Stories
    At Fault
    The Awakening and Selected Stories
    Bayou Folk and a Night in Acadie
    See all books by Kate Chopin

    Also by Kate Chopin

    The Awakening and Selected Stories
    The Awakening and Selected Stories
    At Fault
    The Awakening and Selected Stories
    Bayou Folk and a Night in Acadie
    See all books by 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

    Product Details

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

    Paperback | $9.00
    Published by Modern Library
    Jun 18, 2019 | 240 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9781984854360

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

    Mass Market Paperback | $4.95
    Published by Bantam Classics
    Apr 01, 1985 | 240 Pages | 4-3/16 x 6-7/8 | ISBN 9780553213300

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

    Ebook | $8.99
    Published by Modern Library
    Jun 18, 2019 | 240 Pages | ISBN 9781984854384

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

    Ebook | $1.99
    Published by Bantam Classics
    Jun 03, 2003 | 240 Pages | ISBN 9780553897630

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