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The Awakening
Author: Kate Chopin
Book Information
Publisher: Bantam Classics
Book Type: Paperback
Rating: 35

ISBN-13: 9780553213300 - ISBN-10: 055321330X
Publication Date: 5/1/1985
Pages: 240

Book Description:
First published in 1899, this beautiful, brief  novel so disturbed critics and the public that it  was banished for decades afterward. Now widely read  and admired, The Awakening has  been hailed as an early vision of woman's  emancipation. This sensuous book tells of a woman's  abandonment of her family, her seduction, and her  awakening to desires and passions that threated to  consumer her. Originally entitled "A Solitary  Soul," this portrait of twenty-eight-year-old  Edna Pontellier is a landmark in American fiction,  rooted firmly in the romantic tradition of Herman  Melville and Emily Dickinson. Here, a woman in  search of self-discovery turns away from convention and  society, and toward the primal, from convention  and society, and toward the primal, irresistibly  attracted to nature and the sensesThe  Awakening, Kate Chopin's last novel, has been  praised by Edmund Wilson as "beautifully  written." And Willa Cather described its style as  "exquisite," "sensitive," and  "iridescent." This edition of The  Awakening also includes a selection of  short stories by Kate Chopin.

"This seems to me a  higher order of feminism than repeating the story  of woman as victim... Kate Chopin gives her female  protagonist the central role, normally reserved  for Man, in a meditation on identity and culture,  consciousness and art." -- From the  introduction by Marilynne Robinson.

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Other Versions of this Book: Paperback, Paperback, Hardcover, Hardcover, Audio CD (Unabridged), Audio Cassette (Abridged), Audio CD (Abridged), Audio Cassette (Abridged)


Top Member Reviews

Shanna U. (therubycanary) from NASHVILLE, TN wrote on 11/26/2005...

2 member(s) found this review helpful.

I'm not a huge fan of required reading, but this was one of my favorites. The original women's fiction it looks at one woman's life and how she feels trapped in her times, and the dark way that she deals with it.

Erin C. from OGDEN, UT wrote on 5/21/2007...

1 member(s) found this review helpful.

Beautiful prose. Thought-provoking story - one I'll ponder for quite awhile. Highly recommend this book.


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Bonnie A. (Mizzou) from KETTERING, OH wrote on 8/22/2008...


Every person who seeks to understand the "Women's Lib" phenomenon is obliged to read this seminal work. It gives a look into the heart, mind and soul of a woman who burned to be more than a 'trophy' wife, a bed partner, a domestic factotum, and a bearer of progeny. How desperately she burned to live her own INDIVIDUAL life, secure education, develop skills, follow interests, and express her own thoughts, ideas and feelings will be made abundantly clear to any female reader, and will even give an insight to the male reader who approaches the book in an unprejudiced way.

Samantha D. from CHESTERFIELD, VA wrote on 1/1/2008...


A very intense novel, emotional and interesting.

Catherine H. (catherineh) from RAMSEY, MN wrote on 10/3/2007...


I highly reccomend this book to women. A story of woman's struggles with herself, society and not settling for what is expected of her.

Frank S. from HIALEAH, FL wrote on 4/21/2007...


Needed it for a class, great story to write about.

Monica C. from OXNARD, CA wrote on 1/19/2007...


Very profound

Jennifer M. from BALTIMORE, MD wrote on 7/18/2006...


I loved this book when I read it.

Dawn T. from ALPHARETTA, GA wrote on 5/20/2006...


Daughter read this for her Junior AP lit class. She definitely recommends it.

Tara C. (TaraC) from FARMINGDALE, NJ wrote on 3/16/2006...


A classic. Had to buy it from school for school.

Kelly H. (momiac) from MECHANICSVLLE, VA wrote on 2/4/2006...


Not for me.