The awakening and selected short fiction
Set in and around New Orleans, The Awakening tells the story of Edna Pontellier, a young wife and mother. While on vacation, Edna meets the son of a Lousiana resort owner, with whom she gradually falls in love. As she pulls away from her husband, Edna begins to develop a sense of herself as a whole...
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New York :
Barnes & Noble Classics,
2003.
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Table of Contents:
- The world of Kate Chopin and The Awakening
- Introduction by Rachel Adams
- The Awakening
- Emancipation: a life fable
- A shameful affair
- At the 'Cadian ball
- Desiree's Baby
- A gentleman of Bayou Teche
- A respectable woman
- The story of an hour
- Athenaise
- A pair of silk stockings
- Elizabeth Stock's one story
- The storm
- The godmother
- A little country girl
- Inspired by The Awakening
- Comments & questions
- For further reading.
