The Awakening

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• Recommended for Book Clubs: Kate Chopin's The Awakening Share

  Book clubs have enjoyed a resurgence in recent years, thanks to support from bookstores and publishers. If you’re like me, a book club meeting is a welcome opportunity to socialize with other readers. But it can also be a daunting commitment, especia ... (read full critics)

  blogcritics published on Wed, 22 Jun 2011

• Shakespeare’s Sister

  If Kate Chopin’s The Awakening had not existed, feminist criticism must have invented it. Here was a lost and indeed fallen 19th-century novel, an orphan of the critical storm, whose rescue in the 1960s captured all the themes of the emerging women’s ... (read full critics)

  lrb published on Sun, 5 Sep 2010

3 Reviews

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  Great book that talks about revolutionary changes in women's minds towards the restriction placed in Society during the 1900s.

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  ino.oni said on May 16, 2007 | Add your feedback

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  Classic book, can't disappoint. One can only imagine how Edna Pontellier would look controversial in 1900 America, and not only then/there: Edna's thoughts about maternal love and dedication would stir quite a lot of people I know :-)
  I have only some reservations about the ending, of an otherwise ... (continue)

  Classic book, can't disappoint. One can only imagine how Edna Pontellier would look controversial in 1900 America, and not only then/there: Edna's thoughts about maternal love and dedication would stir quite a lot of people I know :-)
  I have only some reservations about the ending, of an otherwise "perfect" story.

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  floriana said on Jan 4, 2012 | Add your feedback

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  Kate Chopin’s novel, The Awakening, is such a revolutionary book. It marks a significant epoch in the evolution of an American female literary tradition. From the protagonist, Edna, Chopin successfully reveals her ideas of revealing the situation of wife, the experience of motherhood and the possibi ... (continue)

  Kate Chopin’s novel, The Awakening, is such a revolutionary book. It marks a significant epoch in the evolution of an American female literary tradition. From the protagonist, Edna, Chopin successfully reveals her ideas of revealing the situation of wife, the experience of motherhood and the possibility of women’s pursuing of sexual happiness. In addition, Chopin examines the inspirational importance of Edna’s struggle between self-determinated freedom and destined female role. This touches upon Feminism’s discussion of marriage, motherhood and sexuality. Moreover, the implication, contained in The Awakening, of reshaping female nature is somehow promoting to awaken and lessen the unfairly female inequality.

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  莫內藍 said on Mar 21, 2008 | Add your feedback

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• English Books
• Paperback 224 Pages
• ISBN-10: 0704347334
• ISBN-13: 9780704347335
• Publisher: Women's Press, Ltd. (UK)
• Pub date: Aug 01, 2002
• Dimensions: 1226 mm x 774 mm x 129 mm Just how big is that?
• Also available as: Mass Market Paperback, Hardcover, Audio CD, Audio Cassette, Library Binding, School & Library Binding, Unbound and Others

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