by Kate Chopin, Sandra M. Gilbert
How have I NOT read this book?! I could read anything by Kate Chopin all the live long day. I just adore her writing. When I read her stories, something magical takes place and I'm instantly transported into the book. I can clearly smell and visualize everything she describes. I want to live in Chop...
Introduction: The Second Coming of Aphrodite, by Sandra M. GilbertSuggestions for Further ReadingA Note on the Text--The Awakening--Emancipation: A Life Fable--At the 'Cadian Ball--Désirée's Baby--La Belle Zoraïde--At Chênière Caminada--The Story of an Hour--Lilacs--Athénaïse--A Pair of Silk Stockin...
It just didn't WORK for me. Don't get me wrong, they're beautiful stories, they just didn't work.
Interesting series of victorian short stories based on in New Orleans.
More of a **1/2, really.I felt kind of the same way reading The Awakening as I did reading The Age of Innocence, wherein even though I certainly didn't envy the characters' lives, it was still hard to care about their problems when they remained so privileged in other ways. Not that they're not allo...
Chopin is good shit. Kirs picked it up for me after finding with horror that I'd never read her; she has literally never steered me wrong with books, so it's hardly surprising. (I wish I could say I had the same track record with her. Sorry about Kavalier and Clay!)"The Awakening" makes an interesti...
I loved this story for the beautiful writing and the intricate way of exploring the life of a tragic woman. I saw this as a tragic story, not as the example that feminists having been using it as for decades.The feminist themes are there, no doubt, but I don't think that Chopin intended it to be use...
I did not enjoy this story, and I did not see why Edna's life was so bad. I can understand feeling restricted, but I think Edna was a very selfish woman. If anything, she should have thought of her children. I am not here to say that women don't have existences outside of their marriages, their chi...
This is a short novel, published in 1899. It caused such a scandal that it was banned for decades afterward. The furor over this book was so upsetting to Kate Chopin that she gave up writing altogether. The story is about Mrs. Edna Pontellier, a Kentucky girl married to Leonce, a New Orleans Creo...
Bought it because I lost my old copy in a fire. This edition also features eight short stories from Chopin, some of which I haven't read.
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