AWAKENING AND OTHER STORIES by Chopin, Kate ISBN 0192823000
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From her first stories, Kate Chopin was interested in independent characters who challenged convention. This selection enables readers to follow her unfolding career as she experimented with a broad range of writing, from tales for children to decadent fin-de siecle sketches.
'She wanted to swim far out, where no woman had swum before.' Kate Chopin was one of the most individual and adventurous of nineteenth-century american writers, whose fiction explored new and often starting territory. When her most famous story, 'The Awakening', was first published in 1899, it stunned readers with its frank portrayal of the inner word of Edna Pontellier, and its daring criticisms of the limits of marriage and motherhood. The subtle beauty of her writing was contrasted with her unwomanly and sordid subject-matter: Edna's rejection of her domestic role, and her passionate quest for spiritual, sexual, and artistic freedom. From her first stories, Chopin was interested in independent characters who challenged convention. This selection, freshly edited form the first printing of each text, enables readers to follow her unfolding career as she experimented with a broad range of writing, from tales for children to decadent fin-de siecle sketches. 'The Awakening' is set alongside thirty-two short stories, illustrating the spectrum of the fiction from her first published stories to her 1898 secret masterpiece, 'The Storm'.
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AWAKENING AND OTHER STORIES
[edit] Author
Chopin, Kate
[edit] ISBN
0192823000
[edit] Published
04/05/2000
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Oxford University Press
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paperback
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7.99 (GBP)
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