by Kate Chopin · Penguin Classics · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140390223
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«The Awakening and Selected Stories» is the novel and short stories by Kate Chopin, published by Penguin Classics in paperback (288 pages, in English).
Edna Pontellier, a young wife and mother, begins to question the role society assigns her and seeks a freedom that includes erotic desire. The novel, originally published in 1899, scandalized its first readers and has since become a classic. This edition adds Louisiana stories such as «Désirée's Baby» and «The Story of an Hour».
Published in 1984, this edition includes an introduction and notes by Sandra M. Gilbert and a complete bibliography.
For readers of American classics and of fiction that addresses female emancipation from a modern perspective.
Kate Chopin was an American author of short stories and novels based in Louisiana. She is considered by scholars to have been a forerunner of American 20th-century feminist authors of Southern or Catholic background, such as Zelda Fitzgerald, and she is among the most frequently read and recognized writers of Louisiana Creole heritage. She is best known today for her 1899 novel The Awakening.
