Kate Chopin
The Awakening & Other Short Stories: Large Print
Paperback
(Independently published Dec. 17, 2019)
The Awakening shocked turn-of-the-century readers with its forthright treatment of sex and suicide. Departing from literary convention, Kate Chopin failed to condemn her heroine's desire for an affair with the son of a Louisiana resort owner, whom she meets on vacation. The power of sensuality, the delusion of ecstatic love, and the solitude that accompanies the trappings of middle- and upper-class life are the themes of this now-classic novel. As Kaye Gibbons points out in her Introduction, Chopin "was writing American realism before most Americans could bear to hear that they were living it."
- ISBN
- 1676315381 / 9781676315384
- Pages
- 145
- Weight
- 15.7 oz.
- Dimensions
- 8.5 x 0.3
in.