{"title":"Kate Chopin","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"the-awakening-and-selected-stories-kate-chopin","title":"The Awakening and Selected Stories -- Kate Chopin, Paperback","description":"\u003cb\u003eKate Chopin's groundbreaking depiction of a woman who dares to defy the expectations of society in the pursuit of her desire\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen \u003ci\u003eThe Awakening\u003c\/i\u003e was first published in 1899, charges of sordidness and immorality seemed to consign it into obscurity and irreparably damage its author's reputation. But a century after her death, it is widely regarded as Kate Chopin's great achievement. Through careful, subtle changes of style, Chopin shows the transformation of Edna Pontellier, a young wife and mother, who - with tragic consequences - refuses to be caged by married and domestic life, and claims for herself moral and erotic freedom. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFor more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Kate Chopin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Penguin Group\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/04\/2003\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.52lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.60h x 5.00w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780142437322\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAge Range:\u003c\/b\u003e 18-UP\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAccelerated Reader:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReading Level:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.3\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePoint Value:\u003c\/b\u003e 17\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eInterest Level:\u003c\/b\u003e Upper Grade\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eQuiz #\/Name: \u003c\/b\u003e50679 \/ Awakening and Other Stories\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eKate Chopin\u003c\/b\u003e (1851-1904) did not write until she was thirty-six years old. Her first novel, \u003ci\u003eAt Fault\u003c\/i\u003e (1890), had difficulty finding a publisher, so she brought it out at her own expense. From her many stories, she culled two well-reviewed collections: \u003ci\u003eBayou Folk\u003c\/i\u003e in 1894 and \u003ci\u003eA Night in Acadie\u003c\/i\u003e in 1897. \u003ci\u003eThe Awakening\u003c\/i\u003e, now her best-known work, appeared in 1899. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eClaire Vaye Watkins\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eBattleborn\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eGold Fame Citrus\u003c\/i\u003e. Her stories and essays have appeared in \u003ci\u003eGranta\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eOne Story\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Paris Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePloughshares\u003c\/i\u003e, and elsewhere. A Guggenheim Fellow, one of the National Book Foundation's 5 Under 35 and \u003ci\u003eGranta\u003c\/i\u003e's Best Young American Novelists, Claire is the director and co-founder of the Mojave School, a festival of art and literature in the Mojave Desert.","brand":"Kate Chopin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43886694891748,"sku":"9780142437322","price":6.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0611\/9587\/8628\/files\/9780142437322.jpg?v=1782848896"},{"product_id":"the-awakening-kate-chopin-hardcover","title":"The Awakening -- Kate Chopin, Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Awakening is a work from the American south at the turn of the century. It follows the central protagonist, Edna Pontellier's, struggle to negotiate love and motherhood. This compelling novel uses, for its time, an innovative combination of realistic narrative and psychological complexity that contributed to the birth of American modernist literature. 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Now widely read and admired, \u003ci\u003eThe Awakening\u003c\/i\u003e has been hailed as an early vision of woman's emancipation. This sensuous book tells of a woman's abandonment of her family, her seduction, and her awakening to desires and passions that threated to consumer her. Originally entitled \"A Solitary Soul,\" this portrait of twenty-eight-year-old Edna Pontellier is a landmark in American fiction, rooted firmly in the romantic tradition of Herman Melville and Emily Dickinson. Here, a woman in search of self-discovery turns away from convention and society, and toward the primal, from convention and society, and toward the primal, irresistibly attracted to nature and the senses\u003ci\u003eThe Awakening\u003c\/i\u003e, Kate Chopin's last novel, has been praised by Edmund Wilson as \"beautifully written.\" And Willa Cather described its style as \"exquisite,\" \"sensitive,\" and \"iridescent.\" This edition of \u003ci\u003eThe Awakening\u003c\/i\u003e also includes a selection of short stories by Kate Chopin. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"This seems to me a higher order of feminism than repeating the story of woman as victim... 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Up to that time, her life gave no hint of either literary talent or literary ambition. Yet after the publication of her first stories in 1889, she enjoyed ten years of a productive, serious, and fairly successful career. Her first novel, \u003ci\u003eAt Fault\u003c\/i\u003e (1890), had difficulty finding a publisher, so she brought it out at her own expense and sent review copies to important journals. Her short stories--close to a hundred of them--were published for the most part in prestigious national magazines. They gave her a solid reputation as a gifted 'local color' writer--that is, an author specializing in the depiction of a particular region of the country and its inhabitants. From these many stories, she culled two well-reviewed collections: \u003ci\u003eBayou Folk\u003c\/i\u003e in 1894 and \u003ci\u003eA Night in Acadie \u003c\/i\u003ein 1897. \u003ci\u003eThe Awakening\u003c\/i\u003e, now her best-known work, appeared in 1899. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCritics of Chopin's own day disapproved of the sexual frankness of \u003ci\u003eThe Awakening\u003c\/i\u003e and were especially disturbed by the narrator's neutrality toward the unconventional behavior of Edna Pontellier, the heroine. All reviews of the novel were unfavorable. Soon after this setback, a planned third collection of short stories was rejected by a publisher, and Kate Chopin essentially ceased to write. In poor health, she died some five years after \u003ci\u003eThe Awakening\u003c\/i\u003e appeared. 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