Name: The Awakening and Selected Stories (Vintage Classics)
SKU: 54583645
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Author: Kate Chopin
ISBN: 9780593468791

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The Awakening and Selected Stories (Vintage Classics)

Type

Physical Book

Author

Kate Chopin

Introduction by

Jane Smiley

Publisher

Vintage

Language

English

Pages

368

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

20.4x13.2x2.4 cm

Weight

0.70 kg.

ISBN13

9780593468791

Synopsis "The Awakening and Selected Stories (Vintage Classics) "

A feminist literary landmark: the daring story of a woman's search for personal freedom that was so controversial in 1899 that it ended its author's career. With an effortless, sure-handed artistry, Kate Chopin tells the story of Edna Pontellier, a young mother and model wife, whose romantic involvement with a young man at a seaside resort allows her for the first time to imagine a freer life. Upon her return to New Orleans, Edna leaves her husband's home for her own cottage, pursues her artistic ambitions, and begins an affair, only to discover that the constraints of social custom are more powerful than she had thought. Contemporary readers were shocked by the frank, unapologetic treatment of adultery in The Awakening, but over the ensuing century the novel went on to achieve the status of a classic for its visionary prescience and narrative brilliance.

Kate Chopin

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Kate Chopin (1850-1904) forma parte del reducido grupo de escritoras que empezaron a dar voz propia a la mujer en la literatura moderna y cuya valía a menudo se ha visto oscurecida por la censura o el escándalo. Completan el volumen importantes relatos («En el baile acadiano», «Una mujer respetable», «Fedora», «El niño de Désirée», «La historia de una hora», «Lilas», «Athénaïse», «Un par de medias de seda», «La tormenta») que ofrecen una panorámica completa de las preocupaciones y el mundo de la autora.

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