The Awakening - Hardcover

Chopin, Kate

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0684819120 ISBN 13: 9780684819129

Publisher: Simon & Schuster, 1996

Synopsis

In turn-of-the-century New Orleans, Edna Pontellier, a woman who feels trapped in her stifling role as wife and mother, falls passionately in love with another man. 15,000 first printing.

About this title

Book Description:

Kate Chopin's classic, an American Anna Karenina, joins Canongate's Canons series.

With an introduction by Barbara Kingsolver

From the Publisher:

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 “for women it is a holy privilege to efface themselves as individuals.” She fights back in the only way she knows, and her solution is extreme. Infamous in its time, The Awakening is now recognized as a radical work of fiction—sensuous, arresting, and clear–eyed in its commitment to freedom and independence. Kate Chopin was born in St. Louis, Missouri in 1850; The Awakening was her third novel.

About this edition

• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0684819120
• ISBN 13: 9780684819129
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 144