The Awakening - and Other Stories

Designed to appeal to the booklover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much loved classic titles. Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure.Readers and critics were scandalized by The Awakening when it was first published, but it is now regarded as among the boldest and earliest examples of feminist fiction. It is published here with a selection of Chopin's strikingly perceptive short stories and introduced by Dr J. Michelle Coghlan, a specialist in American literature.In The Awakening, Edna Pontellier is on holiday with her husband and two young children at a sleepy resort town on the Louisiana Gulf Coast. There, she is pursued by the charming and unmarried Robert Lebrun. Edna doesn't play by the rules; flirtation turns into an affair that awakens in Edna her desire to break away from her passionless marriage, her children and the strict conventions of nineteenth-century society.

Product details

• Authors: Kate Chopin, Chopin Kate
• Assisted by: Michelle Coghlan (Editor), J Michelle Coghlan (Editor), J. Michelle Coghlan (Introduction), Michelle Coughlan (Introduction)
• Publisher: Macmillan
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 18
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2018
• EAN: 9781509854127
• ISBN: 978-1-5098-5412-7
• No. of pages: 464
• Dimensions: 105 mm x 160 mm x 21 mm
• Series: Collector's Library; Macmillan Collector's Library; Collector's Library; Macmillan Collector's Library; Collector's Library
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Louisiana, Women, Adult & contemporary romance, Short Stories, FICTION / Romance / Holiday, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Short Stories (single author), Romance / Holiday, Family Life / Marriage & Divorce, c 1877 to c 1893 (‘The Gilded Age’ in the USA), Modern and Contemporary romance, Classic fiction: general and literary