Book · 1899 · Fiction

The Awakening and Selected Stories

Name: The Awakening and Selected Stories
Author: Kate Chopin

Penguin Classics (Penguin Random House) · 286 pages

★ 7.1 editorial score

On a Louisiana resort island a married woman learns to swim, and the pleasure undoes everything she agreed to be. Edna Pontellier wants a life of her own, and 1899 offers none.

Medium

Novel

Subject

Female independence Conformity Female sexuality

Setting

New Orleans

Time

1899Depicts 1890s

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