Book Blurb
“It was easy to know the, fluttering about with extended protecting wings when any harm, real or imaginary, threated their previous brood. They were women who idolized their children, worshipped their husbands, and esteemed it a holy privilege to efface themselves as individuals and grow wings s ministering angels.”
It was the summer of Edna Pontellier’s twenty-eight year and as she watched all the mother-women surrounding her on the beach, she vowed not to be one of them and to acknowledge the dire needs and deep yearnings within herself that were unfulfilled by marriage and motherhood.
The Awakening, written over seventy years ago, is the compelling story of a surprisingly modern woman trapped in a dehumanizing marriage and struggling to establish herself as an individual—now regarded as a classic in American fiction.
Editorial Review(s)
“Kate Chopin was long before her time in dealing with sexual passion…and the personal emotions of women.” —Jean Stafford, The New York Review of Books
About the Author
Kate Chopin was an American novelist and short-story writer best known for her startling 1899 novel, The Awakening. It is considered one of the first books to truthfully write about women’s lives, a quintessential work of Southern literature and a bold foray into early feminism. Aside from The Awakening, Chopin has written numerous short stories, many exploring Cajun, Creole, and Southern identities.
