Name: The Awakening (Dover Thrift Editions)
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Author: Kate Chopin
ISBN: 9780486277868

portada The Awakening (Dover Thrift Editions)

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Physical Book

Author

Kate Chopin

Publisher

Dover Publications Inc.

Synopsis "The Awakening (Dover Thrift Editions) "

First published in 1899 this beautiful brief novel so disturbed critics and the public that it was banished for decades afterward. Now widely read and admired The Awakening has been hailed as an early vision of womans emancipation. This sensuous book tells of a womans abandonment of her family her seduction and her awakening to desires and passions that threated to consumer her. Originally entitled A Solitary Soul this portrait of twenty eight year old Edna Pontellier is a landmark in American fiction rooted firmly in the romantic tradition of Herman Melville and Emily Dickinson. Here a woman in search of self discovery turns away from convention and society and toward the primal from convention and society and toward the primal irresistibly attracted to nature and the senses The Awakening Kate Chopins last novel has been praised by Edmund Wilson as beautifully written. And Willa Cather described its style as exquisite sensitive and iridescent. This edition of The Awakening also includes a selection of short stories by 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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