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Description: ISBN 0486277860 / Author: Kate Chopin / Genre: Fiction / A minor masterpiece, The Awakening was a scandalous book when it arrived from ... more Newest Review: ... more about the ones whose names are mentioned than about the others, but they don‘t change, they never surprise, their ... more |
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The Awakening and Selected Stories of Kate Chopin (Enriched Class
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Format: paperback (C format), Publisher: Dover Publications Inc.,
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Format: paperback, Publisher: Digireads.com, ISBN: 1420922335
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Format: paperback, Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd, ISBN: 0764
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Format: Hardback, ISBN: 9781857151329
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Format: paperback (B format), Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd, ISBN:
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Format: audiobook on CD, Publisher: Naxos AudioBooks, ISBN: 96263
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by MALU - written on 19/01/07 (Very useful, 885 readings)
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Mikhail Gorbachev, the last President of the Soviet Union, is often quoted with the sentence, “He who comes too late is punished by life." Kate Chopin (1851 - 1904), author of The Awakening experienced after its publication: “She who comes too early is punished by life.“ Chopin began writing when she was widowed at the age of 32 to support herself and her six children, her stories and sketches were published in magazines and were well accepted as was her first novel At Fault, she gained national recognition during the 1890s as a member of the local-colour movement focusing attention upon the distinctive regional cultures of America. She lived in New ...
by sunmeilan - written on 14/06/06 (Very useful, 473 readings)
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Introduction A friend recently suggested that I read this book. I didn’t really have any idea what it was about; finding out that it was about a woman trying to ‘discover’ herself in the late nineteenth century did not make it any more appealing. I was surprised to find that the book was actually very compelling and beautifully written. Sadly, it caused such a scandal in American society for suggesting that a woman could have another life outside of her husband and children that Kate Chopin was discouraged from writing any more novels. The story Edna Pontellier, a young woman belonging to the New Orleans Creole community, is married with two young ...
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