{"product_id":"the-awakening-and-selected-short-stories-new","title":"The Awakening and Selected Short Stories-New","description":"\u003cp\u003eFirst published in 1899, this beautiful, brief  novel so disturbed critics and the public that it  was banished for decades afterward. Now widely read  and admired, The Awakening has  been hailed as an early vision of womans  emancipation. This sensuous book tells of a womans  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 sensesThe  Awakening, Kate Chopins 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 The  Awakening also includes a selection of  short stories by Kate Chopin.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis seems to me a  higher order of feminism than repeating the story  of woman as victim... Kate Chopin gives her female  protagonist the central role, normally reserved  for Man, in a meditation on identity and culture,  consciousness and art. -- From the  introduction by Marilynne Robinson.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kate Chopin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47471821619445,"sku":"Prep-UK-055321330X","price":24.75,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/ergodebooks.com\/products\/the-awakening-and-selected-short-stories-new","provider":"Ergodebooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}