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  2. Early in “The Awakening” — Kate Chopin’s great feminist novel of identity and self-consciousness, which still throbs with relevance more than 120 years after its publication — the heroine’s...

  3. Book Description: 'The Awakening' is a feminist novel published at the end of the 19th century by Kate Chopin, a single mother raising six children on her own. It speaks to the struggles that women during Chopin's lifetime faced when it came to pursuing independent passions and desires.

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  4. 210,539 ratings11,129 reviews. When first published in 1899, The Awakening shocked readers with its honest treatment of female marital infidelity. Audiences accustomed to the pieties of late Victorian romantic fiction were taken aback by Chopin's daring portrayal of a woman trapped in a stifling marriage, who seeks and finds passionate physical ...

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  5. Aug 1, 2023 · Original 1899 review of The Awakening by Kate Chopin, a story of Creole life of New Orleans and the passionate, impulsive Edna Pontellier.

  6. The Awakening is a novel by Kate Chopin, first published in 1899. Set in New Orleans and on the Louisiana Gulf coast at the end of the 19th century, the plot centers on Edna Pontellier and her struggle between her increasingly unorthodox views on femininity and motherhood with the prevailing social attitudes of the turn-of-the-century American ...

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  7. Dec 2, 2016 · Kate Chopin is best known for her short novel The Awakening, published in 1899. One critic who admired the writing style but questioned the motives of the book was none other than Willa Cather.

  8. May 28, 2024 · The Awakening is a novel by Kate Chopin, published in 1899. The novel depicts a young mother’s struggle to achieve sexual and personal emancipation in the oppressive environment of the postbellum American South. Today it is considered a landmark work of early feminist fiction.

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