The Awakening and Selected Short Stories
by Kate Chopin
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On a sunbaked Creole isle, Edna Pontellier, twenty-eight-year-old wife and mother, experiences the first pangs of passion and desire--an awakening so intense that Edna promises herself it is only the beginning. Far too bold and candid for its time, THE AWAKENING (1899) sparked a vicious national scandal that plagued Kate Chopin for the rest of her life. Richly evocative and sensuous, Chopin's portrayal of a woman who resisted authority in her quest for freedom is now regarded as a landmark in American fiction.
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impulse, responsibility, short story, short stories, miscegenation, Louisiana Creoles, quadroons, racism, Social life and customs, Fiction, Modern Literature, American literature, feminist literature, feminist fiction, manners and customs, literary fiction, Adultery in fiction, Women in fiction, Adultery, Women, Self-actualization (Psychology), Married women, Married women in fiction, Psychological fiction, Psychology, Classic Literature, Man-woman relationships, Social conditions, Criticism and interpretation, Literary Anthologies, social life & customs, Juvenile audience, American fiction (fictional works by one author), Fiction, psychological, Louisiana, fiction, Married people, fiction, Psychological, New orleans (la.), fiction, Fiction, short stories (single author)People
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19th century, Antebellum eraShowing 12 featured editions. View all 198 editions?
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The Awakening, and Selected Short Stories
2023-03-05, Project Gutenberg/Microsoft
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The Awakening
2017, Amazon Classics, Amazonclassics, AmazonClassics
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The Awakening and Other Short Stories
2016, Eternal Books
paperback
in English
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The Awakening: and Selected Short Stories
2015, Mockingbird Classics
paperback
in English
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The Awakening and Selected Short Stories
2013, Simon & Brown
paperback
in English
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The Awakening and Selected Short Stories
2011-05-25, Emero Publishing
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in English
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The Awakening and Selected Short Stories
2009-08-27, Book Jungle
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in English
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The Awakening and Selected Short Stories
1992-08, Bantam Books
Mass Market Paperback
in English
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The Awakening and Selected Short Stories
1992-08, Econo-Clad Books
school & library binding
in English
- Bantam reissue (30)
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The awakeningand selected short stories
1981, Bantam Books, Brand: Bantam Doubleday Dell, Bantam Doubleday Dell
in English
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The Awakening and Selected Short Stories
1981-10, Bantam Books
Mass Market Paperback
in English
- Bantam Classic Edition (4)
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"A green and yellow parrot, which hung in a cage outside the door, kept repeating over and over: "Allez vous-en! Allez vous-en! Sapristi! That's all right!""
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Contains:
The Awakening
Beyond the Bayou
Ma'ame Pelagie
Desiree's Baby
A Respectable Woman
The Kiss
A Pair of Silk Stockings
The Locket
A Reflection
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