The Awakening: By Kate Chopin - Illustrated - Kate Chopin & ReadOn Classics

The Awakening: By Kate Chopin - Illustrated

By Kate Chopin & ReadOn Classics

  • Release Date: 2010-02-08
  • Genre: Classics

Description

The Awakening shocked turn-of-the-century readers with its forthright treatment of sex and suicide. Departing from literary convention, Kate Chopin failed to condemn her heroine's desire for an affair with the son of a Louisiana resort owner, whom she meets on vacation. The power of sensuality, the delusion of ecstatic love, and the solitude that accompanies the trappings of middle- and upper-class life are the themes of this now-classic novel. As Kaye Gibbons points out in her Introduction, Chopin "was writing American realism before most Americans could bear to hear that they were living it."