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!”
An edition of The Awakening
(1899)
The Awakening
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by Kate Chopin
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It was the summer of Edna Pontellier's twenty- eighth year and as she watched all the mother- women surrounding her on the beach, she vowed not to be one of them and to acknowledge the dire needs and deep yearnings within herself that were unfulfilled by marriage and motherhood.
The Awakening, written over seventy years ago, is the compelling story of a surprisingly modern woman trapped in a dehumanizing marriage and struggling to establish herself as an individual—now regarded as a classic in American fiction.
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Adultery, American literature, Classic Literature, Criticism and interpretation, feminist fiction, feminist literature, Fiction, History, Interpersonal attraction, Interpersonal relations, literary fiction, Louisiana Creoles, Man-woman relationships, manners and customs, Marriage, Married people, Married women, Modern Literature, Psychological fiction, Psychology, Romance fiction, Self-actualization (Psychology), Short Stories, Social conditions, Social life and customs, Women, Fiction, general, Fiction, psychological, American fiction (fictional works by one author), Married people, fiction, New orleans (la.), fiction, Chopin, kate, 1851-1904People
Kate Chopin (1851-1904), Kate Chopin (1850-1904), Edna Pontellier, Léonce Pontellier, Etienne Pontellier, Raoul Pontellier, Madame Aline Lebrun, Robert Lebrun, Victor Lebrun, Mariequita, Adèle Ratignolle, Alphonse Ratignolle, Mademoiselle Reisz, Farival twins, Monsieur Farival, Beaudelet, Madame Antoine, Toni Antoine, Old Celestine, Ellen Joe, Doctor Mandelet, Alcée Arobin, Mrs. Highcamp, James Highcamp, Mrs. Merriman, Miss Mayblunt, Gouvernail, Madame PontellierShowing 14 featured editions. View all 346 editions?
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The Awakening
2016, Ostrich Books
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The Awakening
2000, Bedford/St. Martin's
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The Awakening
1972-07, Avon Books
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The Awakening is a novel by Kate Chopin, first published in 1899. Set in New Orleans and on the Louisiana Gulf coast at the end of the 19th century, the plot centers on Edna Pontellier and her struggle between her increasingly unorthodox views on femininity and motherhood with the prevailing social attitudes of the turn-of-the-century American South. It is one of the earliest American novels that focuses on women's issues without condescension. It is also widely seen as a landmark work of early feminism, generating a mixed reaction from contemporary readers and critics.
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