"She grew daring and reckless. Overestimating her strength. She wanted to swim far out. Where no woman had swum before."

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 woman's emancipation. This sensuous book tells of a woman's 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.

Another one of those books covertly left at work by that non-BookCrossing person!

I am going to fulfill a wish with this.

Passing on to Helly77, who (shyly) requested it. :)


Enjoy!

I received this awesome book for Helly's M-bag today. This is one of my all time favorite books, Helly! How exciting that you'll be reading it!

received safe and well along with the rest of my MBag :)

thanks so much xoxoxo