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1 Chopin, Kate The Awakening (Penguin Classics) The Women's Press 1991 0-7043-3822-X / 9780704338227 Paperback  Our cover is different. The Women's Press. 1991.A minor masterpiece, The Awakening was a scandalous book when it arrived from the turn-of-the-century presses. With a heroine who found her husband dull, married life dreary and confining, and motherhood to be bondage, this revolutionary book is still relevant to many.This concise supplement to Chopin's The Awakening helps students understandthe overall structure of the novel, actions and motivations of the characters, and the social and culutral perspectives of the author.From 500 Great Books by Women; review by Erica BauermeisterEdna Pontellier, the heroine of The Awakening, shocked readers in 1899 and the scandal created by the book haunted Kate Chopin for the rest of her life. The Awakening begins at a crisis point in twenty-eight year-old Edna Pontellier's life. Edna is a passionate and artistic woman who finds few acceptable outlets for her desires in her role as wife and mother of two sons living in conventional Creole society. Unlike the married women around her, whose sensuality seems to flow naturally into maternity, Edna finds herself wanting her own emotional and sexual identity. During one summer while her husband is out of town, her frustrations find an outlet in an affair with a younger man. Energized and filled with a desire to define her own life, she sends her children to the country and removes herself to a small house of her own: "Every step she took toward relieving herself from obligations added to her strength and expansion as an individual. She began to look with her own eyes; to see and apprehend the deeper undercurrents of life. No longer was sh  Price: 5.00 GBP Add to Shopping Cart