The awakening

by Kate Chopin

Paperback, 1993

Collection

Status

Available

Description

Unsatisfied with the expectations of Creole society and unhappy with her family life, Edna Pontellier begins to fall in love with the dapper Robert Lebrun. Lebrun's flirtations, along with the lifestyle of renown musician Mademoiselle Reisz, rejuvenates Edna's sense of freedom and independence. However, an affair with the womanizer Alcee Arobin provides Edna with a taste of the danger that comes with living outside of social convention. Trapped between the life she is expected to live and the life she longs to lead, will Edna find happiness?

Publication

New York : Dover, 1993.

ISBN

0486277860 / 9780486277868

Pages

116

Language

Original language

English

Original publication date

1899
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