The Awakening, and Selected Stories

by Kate Chopin | Literature & Fiction |
ISBN: 0140390227 Global Overview for this book
Registered by wingbooklady331wing of Cape Coral, Florida USA on 10/22/2015
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Journal Entry 1 by wingbooklady331wing from Cape Coral, Florida USA on Thursday, October 22, 2015
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Journal Entry 2 by wingbooklady331wing at Cape Coral, Florida USA on Saturday, November 5, 2016
Glad I finally read this book but it isn't on my top books I have read. It is 1001 book. It seems out of step with the era in which it was written.

The Awakening shocked turn-of-the-century readers and reviewers with its treatment of sex and suicide. In a departure 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 convention are the themes of this now-classic novel. The book was influenced by French writers ranging from Flaubert to Maupassant, and can be seen as a precursor of the impressionistic, mood-driven novels of Virginia Woolf and Djuna Barnes. Variously called "vulgar, " "unhealthily introspective, " and "morbid, " the book was neglected for several decades, not least because it was written by a "regional" woman writer. This edition also includes selected stories from Kate Chopin's Bayou Folk and A Night in Acadie, and an introduction and notes by Nina Baym.

Journal Entry 3 by wingbooklady331wing at Grace Thrift Store in Cape Coral, Florida USA on Saturday, November 5, 2016

Released 7 yrs ago (11/5/2016 UTC) at Grace Thrift Store in Cape Coral, Florida USA

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