From Louisiana's remote bayous to its gilded cities, five startling stories of awakening by one of fin-de-siecle America's most daring writers.
When The Awakening was first published in 1899, charges of sordidness and immorality seemed to consign it into obscurity and irreparably damage its author's literary and social reputation. But a century after her death, it is widely regarded as Kate Chopin's great achievement. Through careful, subtle changes of style, Chopin shows the transformation of Edna Pontellier, a young wife and motheā¦