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“Perhaps it is better to wake up after all, even to suffer, rather than to remain a dupe to illusions all one’s life.”
Kate Chopin was enjoying wide popularity as a writer, mainly of short stories, when her second novel, The Awakening, was published to widespread criticism of its immorality. A wake-up call to women all over the country, this landmark novel of early American feminism tells of a Louisiana wife who discovers the strength of her own sexuality and tries to wrench it from the hands of a patriarchal society. And just as Edna Pontellier is ostracized for trying to master her own sexual fate, so did Chopin’s r
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Manufacturer: Signet
Release date: 1 April 1976
ISBN-10 : 0451524489 | ISBN-13: 9780451524485
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Release date: 1 April 1976
ISBN-10 : 0451524489 | ISBN-13: 9780451524485
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