The Awakening

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A new, beautifully laid-out, easy-to-read edition of Kate Chopin's timeless classic. Kate Chopin's The Awakening is the story of Edna Pontellier and her struggle between her increasingly unorthodox views on femininity and motherhood with the prevailing attitudes of the American South at the start of the 20th century. Originally published in 1899, Kate Chopin's masterpiece is considered to be a landmark work of early feminism, as well as a precursor of American modernist literature. It is also considered to be among the first contributions to the "Southern" tradition of American literature, prefiguring the works of Faulkner, Flannery O'Connor, Eudora Welty, Katherine Anne Porter, and Tennessee Williams. Kate Chopin (1850-1904) was an American author of short stories and novels based in Lousiana. She is considered by some scholars to be one of the forerunners of 20th century feminist literature.