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 Thrift Study Edition
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Published March 25, 2012 by Dover Publications, Incorporated.
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Awakening
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Published March 25, 2012 by Dover Publications, Incorporated.
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Awakening Thrift Study Edition
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Published March 25, 2012 by Dover Publications, Incorporated.
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The Awakening
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Published July 8, 2002 by W W Norton & Co Inc (Np).
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- 978-0-393-94183-8Copied ISBN!
Awakening
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Published March 25, 2007 by Bedford/Saint Martin's.
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- 978-1-4576-6159-4Copied ISBN!
Awakening
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Published March 25, 2012 by Dover Publications, Incorporated.
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Awakening (Diversion Classics)
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Published March 25, 2015 by Diversion Publishing Corp..
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Awakening (100 Copy Collector's Edition)
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Published March 25, 2019 by AD Classic.
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Awakening (100 Copy Limited Edition)
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Published March 25, 2019 by Engage Books.
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- 978-1-77226-766-2Copied ISBN!
Awakening (1000 Copy Limited Edition)
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Published March 25, 2015 by AD Classic.
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- 978-1-77226-166-0Copied ISBN!
Awakening
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Published July 23, 2019 by Independently Published.
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- 978-1-7976-7714-9Copied ISBN!
Awakening
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Published July 23, 2019 by Independently Published.
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- 978-1-0801-0459-8Copied ISBN!
Awakening
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Published 2020 by Independently Published.
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- 979-8-6966-8746-9Copied ISBN!
Awakening
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Published March 25, 2022 by Independently Published.
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- 979-8-8393-1476-4Copied ISBN!
Awakening
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Published March 25, 2022 by Independently Published.
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