The Awakening & Other Stories
06 September 2018Imprint: Macmillan Collector's Library
Synopsis
Readers and critics were scandalized by The Awakening when it was first published, but it is now regarded as among the boldest and earliest examples of feminist fiction. It is published here with a selection of Chopin’s strikingly perceptive short stories and introduced by Dr J. Michelle Coghlan, a specialist in American literature.
Part of the Macmillan Collector’s Library; a series...
Details
06 September 2018408 pages
9781509854127Imprint: Macmillan Collector's Library
Reviews
From the first pages of The Awakening we are pulled into territory that feels utterly current and familiar, with an undercurrent more dangerous than romantic comedyGuardian
Kate Chopin is a pioneer in the treatment of sexuality in American literature . . . She does not speak only to women, but she speaks most powerfully about themThe Times
A Creole Bovary is this little novel of Miss Chopin’sWilla Cather
Chopin’s deceptively slight novel is the kind of book revolutions are made ofHarper’s Bazaar
