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A collection of classic stories by Kate Chopin, a trailblazing American female author recognized for her frank treatment of women's issues in fiction. The stories in this volume include:The Awakening, Beyond the Bayou, Ma'ame Pelagie, Desiree's Baby, A Respectable Woman, The... Read Full Overview

Enriched Classics offer readers accessible editions of great works of literature enhanced by helpful notes and commentary. Each book includes educational tools alongside the text, enabling students and readers alike to gain a deeper and more developed understanding of the writer... Read Full Overview

First published in 1899, this beautiful, brief novel so disturbed critics and the public that it was banished for decades afterward. Now widely read and admired, The Awakening has been hailed as an early vision of woman's emancipation. This sensuous book tells of a woman's abandonment... Read Full Overview

Kate Chopin was one of the most individual and adventurous of nineteenth-century american writers, whose fiction explored new and often startling territory. When her most famous story, The Awakening, was first published in 1899, it stunned readers with its frank portrayal of... Read Full Overview

A collection of Kate Chopin's best-known work, including "The Awakening" and seven additional short stories.

A collection of transformative stories that emphasize women's roles in society.

The best-selling, "excellent . . . poignant ”and scientifically lucid ” portrait" ( New York Times Book Review ) of the remarkable Marie Curie.... "Never a dull moment. . . . Goldsmith leads the reader through a wonderland of facts with just the right blend of science and story... Read Full Overview

This book opens with a young wife and mother, vacationing at a resort in the Gulf of Mexico with her husband and children. The resort is run by an elderly Frenchwoman, who manages the place along with her two sons. The young wife and one of the sons develop a deep and passionate... Read Full Overview

"Perhaps it is better to wake up after all, even to suffer, rather than to remain a dupe to illusions all one's life."

The Awakening is set in New Orleans and the Southern Louisiana coast at the end of the nineteenth century. This landmark novel was one of the earliest works of feminism and a precursor to American modernism and the great southern novelists such as William Faulkner, Flannery O'Connor,... Read Full Overview