The Awakening and Other Stories
by:
Kaye Gibbons (author)
Kate Chopin (author)
Nina Baym (author)
The Awakening shocked turn-of-the-century readers with its forthright treatment of sex and suicide. Departing 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,...
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The Awakening shocked turn-of-the-century readers with its forthright treatment of sex and suicide. Departing 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 life are the themes of this now-classic novel. As Kaye Gibbons points out in her Introduction, Chopin "was writing American realism before most Americans could bear to hear that they were living it."This Modern Library Paperback Classics edition includes selected stories from Chopin's Bayou Folk and A Night in Acadie.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780679783336 (0679783334)
Publish date: November 14th 2000
Publisher: Modern Library
Pages no: 448
Edition language: English
This book was the corpus for my undergraduate thesis. Which means I read it countless times, analyzing the words that portray the character relations and their conversations, marking the important parts, underlining important words. Then I lost the book in a fire. Hmm. It was meant to be, I guess. S...