A Vocation and a Voice: Stories by Kate Chopin - ISBN: 9780140390780
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A woman’s awakening: passion, desire, and the price of freedom.

A Vocation and a Voice: Stories

Stories

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  • Paperback

    240 pages

  • Release Date

    1 January 1991

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Summary

First 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 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 threatened to consume her. Originally entitled “A Solitary Soul,” this portrait of twenty-eight-year-old Edna Pontellier is …

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780140390780
ISBN-10:0140390782
Author:Kate Chopin
Publisher:Penguin Books
Imprint:Penguin Classics
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:240
Release Date:1 January 1991
Weight:163g
Dimensions:12mm x 130mm x 197mm
Series:Penguin Classics
About The Author

Kate Chopin

Kate Chopin was born in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1851. She began writing shortly after her husband’s death and, from 1889 until her own death, her stories and other miscellaneous writings appeared in “Vogue, Youth’s Companion, Atlantic Monthly, Century, Saturday Evening Post,” and other publications. In addition to “The Awakening,” Mrs. Chopin published another novel, “At Fault,” and two collections of short stories and sketches, “Bayou Folk” and “A Night at Acadie.” The publication of “The Awakening” in 1899 occasioned shocked and angry response from reviewers all over the country. The book

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