The Awakening
A Solitary Soul
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Author
Publication
1992 - Alfred A. Knopf, New York, USA, New York (State)
Language
English
Word Count
55,250 words, Guess
Page Count
221 pages
Physical Format
Hardcover
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL1744065M
- ISBN-139780679417217
- ISBN-100679417214
- OCLC Control Number985503774
- OCLC Control Number25631870
and 6 more
- OCLC Control Numberawakeningsolitar00chop
- Library of Congress Control Number92052897
- Amazon0679417214
- GoogleKFyuAAAAIAAJ
- Goodreads537525
- LibraryThing1663933
Classifications
- DDC813/.4
- LCCPS1294.C63 A64 1992
Description
Kate Chopin's riveting, daring story of one woman's search for personal freedom was so far ahead of its time that its publication in 1899 aroused a storm of controversy violent enough to end its author's career. With an effortless, sure-handed artistry, Chopin tells the story of Edna Pontellier, a young mother and model wife, whose romantic involvement with a young man during a vacation at a seaside resort allows her for the first time to imagine a new, freer life. Upon her return to New Orleans, Edna leaves her husband's home for her own cottage and begins an affair, only to discover that the constraints of social custom may be more powerful than she thought. Contemporary readers and reviewers were shocked by the frank, unapologetic treatment of adultery in The Awakening. The fact that we have the book at all is the most convincing tribute to its enduring, irrepressible power. source: http://www.randomhouse.com/knopf/classics//catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780679417217
Series Statement
- Everyman's Library, 132
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