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The Awakening and other stories [ang.]

Autor: Chopin, Kate

Kate Chopin was one of the most individual and adventurous of nineteenth-century American writers. Her fiction explored new and often startling territory. When her most famous story, "The Awakening", was first published in 1899, it stunned readers with its frank portrayal of the inner word of Edna Pontellier, and its daring criticisms of the limits of marriage and motherhood.

The subtle beauty Chopin`s writing contrasted with her "unwomanly" and "sordid" subject matter - Edna`s

rejection of her domestic role, and her passionate quest for spiritual, sexual, and artistic freedom. Throughout her work, Chopin focused on many such independent characters who challenged convention.

This selection, freshly edited from the first printing of each text, enables readers to follow her unfolding career as she experimented with a broad range of writing, from tales for children to decadent fin-de siecle sketches.

"The Awakening" is set alongside thirty-two short stories, illustrating the spectrumof the fiction from her first published stories to her 1898 secret masterpiece, "The Storm."

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