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The Awakening And Selected Stories
by Chopin, Kate
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- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 158726160X
- ISBN 13
- 9781587261602
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Woodlawn, Illinois, United States
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Synopsis
The Awakening shocked turn-of-the-century readers and reviewers with its treatment of sex and suicide. In a departure from literary convention, Kate Chopin failed to condemn her heroine's desire for an affair with the son of a Louisiana resort owner, whom she meets on vacation. The power of sensuality, the delusion of ecstatic love, and the solitude that accompanies the trappings of middle- and upper-class convention are themes of this now-classic novel. The book was influenced by French writers ranging from Flaubert to Maupassant, and can be seen as a precursor of the impressionistic, mood-driven novels of Virginia Woolf and Djuna Barnes. Variously called "vulgar," "unhealthily introspective," and "morbid," the book was neglected for several decades, not least because it was written by a "regional" woman writer.
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- Bookseller
- Granada Bookstore (Member IOBA)
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 026589
- Title
- The Awakening And Selected Stories
- Author
- Chopin, Kate
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Thus
- ISBN 10
- 158726160X
- ISBN 13
- 9781587261602
- Publisher
- Borders Classic
- Place of Publication
- Ann Arbor, Michigan, U. S. A.
- Date Published
- 2004
- Pages
- 183
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Keywords
- Short Stories; Fiction - Literary; Louisiana - Social Life And Customs - Fiction; Women - Louisiana - Fiction. Literary
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