The Awakening, originally titled A Solitary Soul, is a novel by Kate Chopin, first published in 1899. Set in New Orleans and the Southern Louisiana coast at the end of the nineteenth century, the plot centers on Edna Pontellier and her struggle to reconcile her increasingly unorthodox views on femininity …
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The Awakening, originally titled A Solitary Soul, is a novel by Kate Chopin, first published in 1899. Set in New Orleans and the Southern Louisiana coast at the end of the nineteenth century, the plot centers on Edna Pontellier and her struggle to reconcile her increasingly unorthodox views on femininity and motherhood with the prevailing social attitudes of the turn-of-the-century South. It is one of the earliest American novels that focuses on women's issues without condescension. It is also widely seen as a landmark work of early feminism, generating mixed reaction from contemporary readers and criticism. The novel's blend of realistic narrative, incisive social commentary, and psychological complexity makes The Awakening a precursor of American modernist literature; it prefigures the works of American novelists such as William Faulkner and Ernest Hemingway and echoes the works of contemporaries such as Edith Wharton and Henry James. It can also be considered among the first Southern works in a tradition that would culminate with the modern masterpieces of Faulkner, Flannery O'Connor, Eudora Welty, Katherine Anne Porter, and Tennessee Williams
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The Awakening and Selected Stories
English language
Published Sept. 13, 2003
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- 978-0-14-243732-2Copied ISBN!
The Awakening
128 pages
Published Jan. 27, 2017 by CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, Createspace Independent Publishing Platform.
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- 978-1-5424-4348-7Copied ISBN!
The Awakening
Paperback
English language
Published Dec. 8, 1992 by Bedford/St Martins.
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- 978-0-312-13856-1Copied ISBN!
L'Eveil
219 pages
French language
Published April 1, 1990 by Éditions Liana Levi.
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- 978-2-86746-057-9Copied ISBN!
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The Awakening
library binding, 190 pages
Published Feb. 1, 1982 by Perfection Learning, San Val.
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- 978-0-7807-3591-0Copied ISBN!
The Awakening
Hardcover, 312 pages
Published Jan. 1, 2022 by Book on Demand Ltd..
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- 978-5-519-71983-4Copied ISBN!
The Awakening
Mass Market Paperback, 211 pages
English language
Published Nov. 8, 1981 by Bantam Books.
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- 978-0-553-21132-0Copied ISBN!
Awakening
240 pages
English language
Published 2019 by Random House Publishing Group.
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- 978-1-9848-5436-0Copied ISBN!
Awakening
English language
Published July 23, 2019 by Independently Published.
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- 978-1-6930-4697-1Copied ISBN!
Awakening
English language
Published July 23, 2019 by Independently Published.
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- 978-1-6898-8006-0Copied ISBN!
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