A GREEN AND yellow parrot, which hung in a cage outside the door, kept repeating over and over:
“Allez vous-en! Allez vous-en! Sapristi! That's all right!”
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Now recognised as one of the classics of nineteenth- century literature, The Awakening was a scandal of its time, and had to wait until the 1970s to be rediscovered.
It is the deeply moving story of Edna Pontellier, a young woman living in New Orleans. She is fond of her husband, proud of her sons, but she cannot accept that for women it is 'a holy privilege to efface themselves as individuals'. Her fight is a contemporary one. It is for spiritual and sensual freedom, and for self- determination.
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Adultery, American literature, Classic Literature, Criticism and interpretation, feminist fiction, feminist literature, Fiction, History, Interpersonal attraction, Interpersonal relations, literary fiction, Louisiana Creoles, Man-woman relationships, manners and customs, Marriage, Married people, Married women, Modern Literature, Psychological fiction, Psychology, Romance fiction, Self-actualization (Psychology), Short Stories, Social conditions, Social life and customs, Women, American fiction (fictional works by one author), Married people, fiction, New Orleans (la.), fiction, Fiction, psychological, Louisiana, fictionPeople
Kate Chopin (1851-1904), Kate Chopin (1850-1904), Edna Pontellier, Léonce Pontellier, Etienne Pontellier, Raoul Pontellier, Madame Aline Lebrun, Robert Lebrun, Victor Lebrun, Mariequita, Adèle Ratignolle, Alphonse Ratignolle, Mademoiselle Reisz, Farival twins, Monsieur Farival, Beaudelet, Madame Antoine, Toni Antoine, Old Celestine, Ellen Joe, Doctor Mandelet, Alcée Arobin, Mrs. Highcamp, James Highcamp, Mrs. Merriman, Miss Mayblunt, Gouvernail, Madame PontellierShowing 14 featured editions. View all 346 editions?
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The Awakening
2016, Ostrich Books
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- first edition, first printing
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The Awakening
2000, Bedford/St. Martin's
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in English
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The Awakening is a novel by Kate Chopin, first published in 1899. Set in New Orleans and on the Louisiana Gulf coast at the end of the 19th century, the plot centers on Edna Pontellier and her struggle between her increasingly unorthodox views on femininity and motherhood with the prevailing social attitudes of the turn-of-the-century American South. It is one of the earliest American novels that focuses on women's issues without condescension. It is also widely seen as a landmark work of early feminism, generating a mixed reaction from contemporary readers and critics.
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