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The Awakening and Selected Short Stories (Illustrated) By Kate Chopin

The Awakening and Selected Short Stories (Illustrated)

By Kate Chopin

  • Release Date: 2012-08-15
  • Genre: Fiction & Literature
  • $2.99

Description

The Awakening" is the story of Edna Pontellier, an attractive twenty-eight year old woman who is a wife and mother of two sons living in the Creole south in the late 19th century. Edna finds herself trapped in her life as a wife and a mother and feels unable to express her passionate sensuality within the confines of her marriage. She seeks a spiritual and sexual awakening through an affair with a younger man during one summer while her husband is away.