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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Awakening
English language
Published March 25, 2012 by HarperCollins Publishers Limited.
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- 978-0-00-748069-2Copied ISBN!
Awakening : Large Student Annotation Edition
English language
Published 2019 by Independently Published.
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- 978-1-6867-7336-5Copied ISBN!
Awakening - Unabridged
English language
Published 2022 by Ft. Raphael Publishing Company.
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- 978-1-958943-07-6Copied ISBN!
Awakening (Royal Collector's Edition) (Case Laminate Hardcover with Jacket)
English language
Published 2021 by AD Classic.
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- 978-1-77476-254-7Copied ISBN!
The Awakening
214 pages
Published March 24, 2014 by CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform.
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- 978-1-4974-3094-5Copied ISBN!
Awakening
English language
Published March 25, 2022 by Pierian Springs Press.
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- 978-1-953136-36-7Copied ISBN!
Awakening
English language
Published 2019 by Independently Published.
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- 978-1-6793-6915-5Copied ISBN!
The Awakening
120 pages
Published Aug. 18, 2010 by CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform.
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- 978-1-4414-1185-3Copied ISBN!
Awakening
English language
Published March 25, 2017 by Lulu Press, Inc..
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- 978-1-387-02193-2Copied ISBN!
Awakening
English language
Published 2014 by Canongate Books.
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- 978-1-78211-430-7Copied ISBN!
Awakening (100 Copy Limited Edition)
English language
Published March 25, 2019 by Engage Books.
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- 978-1-77226-591-0Copied ISBN!
Awakening
English language
Published March 25, 2015 by HarperCollins Publishers.
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- 978-1-4434-4692-1Copied ISBN!
Awakening
English language
Published March 25, 2013 by HarperCollins Publishers.
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- 978-1-4434-3191-0Copied ISBN!
The Awakening
Audio Cassette
English language
Published Dec. 8, 1981 by Blackstone Audiobooks.
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- 978-0-7861-0594-6Copied ISBN!
The Awakening
98 pages
Published Jan. 17, 2018 by CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform.
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- 978-1-9838-0180-8Copied ISBN!
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