The Awakening

Author: Kate Chopin

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Price : $29.95 NZD
ISBN : 9780704347335
Publisher : womenp
Imprint : womenp
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Weight (g) : 0.159
Publication date : 01 February 2002
Produced in : United Kingdom
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Author : Kate Chopin
Series : A Women's Press classic
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Description

Edna Pontellier is a young woman living comfortably in the beautiful city of New Orleans. She is fond of her husband and proud of her sons but finds it impossible to accept that

Reviews

'Kate Chopin is a pioneer in the treatment of sexuality in American literature, discussing realistically, metaphorically and symbolically woman's desire to become a person in her own right, and the vexed question of the relationship between sex and love' The Sunday Times

Author description

Kate Chopin was born in St Louis, Missouri in 1850. The Awakening was her third novel and was first published in 1899.