The Awakening: And Selected Stories of Kate Chopin

by Kate Chopin

Book 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."

Kate Chopin was enjoying wide popularity as a writer, mainly of short stories, when her second novel, The Awakening, was published to widespread criticism of its immorality. A wake-up call to women all over the country, this landmark novel of early American feminism tells of a Louisiana wife who discovers the...

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0451524489
• ISBN13: 9780451524485
• Release Date: April 1976
• Publisher: Signet Book
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 4.2" x 6.9"