The Awakening

This candid portrayal of a woman who refuses to accept her allotted role as wife and mother caused an outcry when it was published in 1899. It is the story of Edna Pontellier, who spends the summer on the Gulf of Mexico with her businessman husband and her two sons. When an illicit romance awakens unfamiliar ideas and longings in Edna, she discovers a new identity for herself, but cannot hope for understanding in the stifling attitudes of Louisiana society.>

Product details

• Authors: Kate Chopin
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 25.05.2023
• EAN: 9780241630785
• ISBN: 978-0-241-63078-5
• No. of pages: 224
• Dimensions: 114 mm x 167 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Little Clothbound Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; New Orleans, Narrative theme: Interior life, Feminism and feminist theory, FICTION / Feminist, c 1890 to c 1899