Kate Chopin \'s absorbing 1899 novel The Awakening tells the story of Edna Pontellier, a married woman in New Orleans who, during a summer holiday, begins to question her conventional life.
In this annotated, modernized edition-specially tailored for twenty-first-century readers-Rafael Walker highlights Chopin\'s awareness of the privileged class\'s exploitation of the the less-privileged, and includes a number of neglected Stories that foreground Chopin\'s feminist proclivities..
Celebrated today as a key text in American literature, it scandalized early critics and, precisely because of its boldness, jeopardized Chopin\'s career.
In this path-breaking novel, Chopin speculates more daringly than any before her about the consequences for middle-class women of late-nineteenth-century society\'s unleashing of female desire.
Kate Chopin \'s absorbing 1899 novel The Awakening tells the story of Edna Pontellier, a married woman in New Orleans who, during a summer holiday, begins to question her conventional life
