The Awakening
- 3 Mar 2016
- 9781782117131
- £7.99
- 240 pp
- 129×198mm
- 7 Aug 2014
- 9781782114307
- £5.59
- 320 pp
In a few words
Kate Chopin’s classic, an American Anna Karenina, introduced by Barbara Kingsolver
In a few words
Kate Chopin’s classic, an American Anna Karenina
With an introduction by Barbara Kingsolver
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
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
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
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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.
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‘Introducing this release of The Awakening has given me an opportunity to re-experience one of my life’s important books . . . I still marvel at Chopin’s realism, her impatience with conventional trappings, her arresting honesty’ BARBARA KINGSOLVER
‘Incisive, brilliant and haunting’ MAGGIE O’FARRELL
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.
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
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
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
Incisive, brilliant and haunting
Maggie O'farrell
