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The Awakening and Selected Stories »

Authors: Kate Chopin, Sandra M. Gilbert (Editor), Sandra Gilbert
ISBN-13: 9780142437322, ISBN-10: 0142437328
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Group (USA)
Date Published: March 2003
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Author Biography: Kate Chopin

Book Synopsis

Kate Chopin's novel is a probing psychological study of a woman who, oppressed by family life and her romantic difficulties, drowns herself in the ocean. It is also an examination of a particular culture at the end of the 19th century: the aristocratic society of southern Louisiana. Condemned at the time it was written, THE AWAKENING has been valued in later years for its unflinching honesty and sexual frankness.

	Introduction: The Second Coming of an Aphrodite	7
	Suggestions for Further Reading	35
	A Note on the Text	39
	The Awakening	43
	Emancipation: A Life Fable	177
	At the 'Cadian Ball	179
	Desiree's Baby	189
	La Belle Zoraide	195
	At Cheniere Caminada	201
	The Story of an Hour	213
	Lilacs	216
	Athenaise	229
	A Pair of Silk Stockings	262
	Neg Creol	267
	Elizabeth Stock's One Story	274
	The Storm: A Sequel to "The 'Cadian Ball"	281