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SoHo Books
January 2011
On Sale: January 8, 2011
120 pages
ISBN: 1936594498
EAN: 9781936594498
Paperback (reprint)
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Fiction Family Life
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 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
senses The Awakening, Kate Chopin's last novel, has been
praised by Edmund Wilson as "beautifully written." And Willa
Cather described its style as "exquisite," "sensitive," and
"iridescent."
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