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The Awakening (The Canons)
Kate Chopin
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Description for The Awakening (The Canons)
Paperback. Kate Chopin's classic, an American Anna Karenina, joins Canongate's Canons series. With an introduction by Barbara Kingsolver Series: Canons. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 130 x 33. Weight in Grams: 184.
Over one long, languid summer Edna Pontellier, fettered by marriage and motherhood, becomes acquainted with Robert Lebrun. As the days shorten and the temperature drops Edna succumbs to Robert's devotion. But as her desire grows so too does her discontentment - with the role society has forced her to play and with the bonds that hold her fast - and her world begins to unravel with devastating consequences . . . The Awakening is widely regarded as one of the forerunners of feminist literature alongside Tolstoy's Anna Karenina and Flaubert's Madame Bovary. First published in the United States in 1899, this radical novel sent shockwaves through American society and continues to speak to readers over a hundred years later. This tender, brilliant, and seductive novel is as beautifully written as it is politically engaging.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Canongate Canons
Condition
New
Series
Canons
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781782117131
SKU
9781782117131
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Ref
99-1
About Kate Chopin
Kate Chopin, born Katherine O'Flaherty in 1850, was one of the most individual and adventurous of nineteenth-century American writers, whose fiction explored new and often startling territory. She is the author of two novels, The Awakening and My Fault, and several short stories.
Reviews for The Awakening (The Canons)
The Awakening is not only one of the most important novels in the history of American women's writing, it is an acknowledged American masterpiece . . . Chopin offers a compelling portrait of female experience, one of the first of its kind
SARAH CHURCHWELL I still marvel at Chopin's realism, her impatience with conventional trappings, her arresting honesty
BARBARA KINGSOLVER Chopin's deceptively slight novel is the kind of book revolutions are made of . . . Reissued with a forward by Barbara Kingsolver, this angry, eye-opening novel is well worth adding to your reading list
Harper's Bazaar
Even more powerful than I remembered
MARGARET DRABBLE A Creole Bovary is this little novel of Miss Chopin's
WILLA CATHER Chopin's slight, brittle and fierce novel became a classic and a cult, shocking readers with its candid and unsentimental portrait of marital infidelity . . . it remains delicately bitter and acidly angry
Observer
Incisive, brilliant and haunting
MAGGIE O'FARRELL This landmark feminist novel, first published in 1899, remains startlingly relevant
JUDY BLUME, My Life in Books
Elle
Sometimes bold, fearless writing really does have to wait for 'someone in some future time' for readers yet to come. Sleeping Beauties, once awakened, will always serve a contemporary agenda. But Chopin's The Awakening is now justly regarded as an American classic and read with passion and delight
Literary Review
Plucky and masterly
The Lady
A quietly explosive study of female impotence, it is quite superb
Independent on Sunday
SARAH CHURCHWELL I still marvel at Chopin's realism, her impatience with conventional trappings, her arresting honesty
BARBARA KINGSOLVER Chopin's deceptively slight novel is the kind of book revolutions are made of . . . Reissued with a forward by Barbara Kingsolver, this angry, eye-opening novel is well worth adding to your reading list
Harper's Bazaar
Even more powerful than I remembered
MARGARET DRABBLE A Creole Bovary is this little novel of Miss Chopin's
WILLA CATHER Chopin's slight, brittle and fierce novel became a classic and a cult, shocking readers with its candid and unsentimental portrait of marital infidelity . . . it remains delicately bitter and acidly angry
Observer
Incisive, brilliant and haunting
MAGGIE O'FARRELL This landmark feminist novel, first published in 1899, remains startlingly relevant
JUDY BLUME, My Life in Books
Elle
Sometimes bold, fearless writing really does have to wait for 'someone in some future time' for readers yet to come. Sleeping Beauties, once awakened, will always serve a contemporary agenda. But Chopin's The Awakening is now justly regarded as an American classic and read with passion and delight
Literary Review
Plucky and masterly
The Lady
A quietly explosive study of female impotence, it is quite superb
Independent on Sunday