The Awakening is a NOVEL by Kate Chopin, first published in 1899.
It is also widely seen as a landmark work of ear.
It is one of the earliest American novels that focuses on women\'s issues without condescension.
Set in New Orleans and on the Louisiana Gulf coast at the end of the 19th century, the plot centers on Edna Pontellier and her struggle between her increasingly unorthodox views on femininity and motherhood with the prevailing social attitudes of the turn-of-the-century American South.
The Awakening is a NOVEL by Kate Chopin, first published in 1899