The awakening : an authoritative text, contexts, criticism / Kate Chopin ; edited by Margaret Culley.

First edition.

New York : W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., [1976]

©1976

viii, 229 pages : facsimile ; 22 cm.

BEIN Tanselle Z44 0427: Paperbound. Autograph: G.T. Tanselle. Accompanied by: Postage-paid postcard from publisher requesting feedback as to the merits of the book.

In the summer of her 28th year, Edna Pontellier and her children, along with the wives and families of other prospective businessmen, spend the summer in an idyllic coastal community away from their husbands and the sweltering heat of 1890s' New Orleans. Aware of deep yearnings that are unfulfilled by marriage and motherhood, Edna plunges into an illicit liaison that reawakens her long dormant desires, inflames her heart, and eventually blinds her to all else.

English

June 01, 2002

Includes bibliographical references (page 229).