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Presentation by Kaye Gibbons 

Altered and with notes by Nina Baym 

Discourse by Elizabeth Blackwell, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and from The Picayune's Creole Cook Book 

The Awakening stunned turn-of-the-century perusers with its direct treatment of sex and suicide. Withdrawing from artistic tradition, Kate Chopin neglected to censure her courageous woman's longing for an undertaking with the child of a Louisiana resort manager whom she meets in the midst of a furlough. The force of erotic nature, the dream of elate affection, and the isolation that goes with the trappings of center  and privileged life are the topics of this now-exemplary novel. As Kaye Gibbons calls attention to in her Introduction, Chopin "was composing American authenticity before most Americans could bear to hear that they were existing it." This version incorporates chose stories from Chopin's Bayou Folk and A Night in Acadie. 

Incorporates a Modern Library Reading Group Guide 

Article Reviews 

From Library Journal 

This exquisite release of Chopin's 1899 exemplary peculiarities period photographs of the novel's New Orleans area and a sturdy plastic dust coat. 

Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc. -This content alludes to a no longer available or occupied version of this title. 

Much thanks to you to all my perusing companions who recommended The Awakening as one of their most loved fantastic books! I have been attempting to extension out into new abstract planets, and the classics is one classification that I hadn't yet touched. Still a tenderfoot, yet my trip has been so gainful hitherto. The Awakening was one novel that is inconceivably simple to peruse and holds such effective writing in so few pages. 

A forbidden subject back in its day, The Awakening recounts the story of one lady's passionate trip from a smothered, hopeless marriage to an energetic and vigorous opportunity. Junior Edna Pontellier feels trapped in a cold, albeit spoiled, existence with spouse, Leonce. Stirrings of autonomy start one late spring while turning in Grand Isle, an island off the shoreline of Louisiana. These new sentiments have started a significant change in Edna, freeing her bizarre. In this way follows a disloyalty that fantasies are made of, despite the fact that at the cost of her marriage and parenthood. 

Scarcely stunning in this day and age, The Awakening's subject of conjugal treachery and physical desire for an alternate is dependably a pageturner. The subject of the novel - Edna's torment at the chains that tie her and the flutterings of an unbridled enthusiasm - is brought to existence with delightful composition in basic, exquisite words. I am amazed to discover such an enthusiastic and provocative story inside its pages. Short however entering, The Awakening will move you.