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The Awakening
Kate Chopin
Genre: Fiction
Description
The Modern Library edition of The Awakening has an introduction by Kay Gibbons, who writes: "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 Kay Gibbons points out, Chopin "was writing American realism before most Americans could bear to hear that they were living it."
- Find the text to this book at Project Gutenberg