The Awakening and Selected Stories
penguin vitae
$54.42
- Hardcover
288 pages
- Release Date
2 March 2020
Summary
The Awakening: A Woman’s Defiance
The groundbreaking depiction of a woman who dares to defy the expectations of society in the pursuit of her desire, with an insightful introduction by author Claire Vaye Watkins.
When Kate Chopin’s classic was first published in 1899, charges of sordidness and immorality seemed to consign it into obscurity and irreparably damage its author’s reputation. But a century after her death, The Awakening is widely regarded as Kate Chopin’s…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780143134800 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0143134809 |
| Series: | Penguin Vitae |
| Author: | Kate Chopin, Claire Vaye Watkins |
| Publisher: | Penguin Putnam Inc |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Release Date: | 2 March 2020 |
| Weight: | 354g |
| Dimensions: | 204mm x 136mm x 24mm |
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About The Author
Kate Chopin
Kate Chopin (1851-1904) did not write until she was thirty-six years old. Her first novel, At Fault (1890), had difficulty finding a publisher, so she brought it out at her own expense. From her many stories, she culled two well-reviewed collections- Bayou Folk in 1894 and A Night in Acadie in 1897. The Awakening, now her best-known work, appeared in 1899.
Claire Vaye Watkins is the author of Battleborn and Gold Fame Citrus. Her stories and essays have appeared in Granta, Tin House, Freeman’s, The Paris Review, Story Quarterly, New American Stories, Best of the West, The New Republic, The New York Times, Pushcart Prize XLIII, The Believer, and others. She is a Guggenheim Fellow, a Lannan Foundation Fellow, one of the National Book Foundation’s “5 Under 35” and one of Granta’s “Best Young American Novelists.”
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