{"product_id":"the-awakening","title":"The Awakening","description":"\u003cb\u003eKate Chopin's classic feminist novel about a woman's abandonment of her family, her seduction, and her introduction to desires and passions that threaten to consume her\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"This seems to me a higher order of feminism than repeating the story of woman as victim. . . . Kate Chopin gives her female protagonist the central role, normally reserved for Man, in a meditation on identity and culture, consciousness and art.\"--From the introduction by Marilynne Robinson.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFirst published in 1899, this beautiful, brief novel so disturbed critics and the public that it was banished for decades afterward. Now widely read and admired, \u003ci\u003eThe Awakening\u003c\/i\u003e has been hailed as an early vision of woman's emancipation. Originally entitled \"A Solitary Soul,\" this portrait of twenty-eight-year-old Edna Pontellier is a landmark in American fiction, rooted firmly in the Romantic tradition of Herman Melville and Emily Dickinson. Here, a woman engaged in self-discovery turns away from convention and society, and toward the primal, irresistibly attracted to nature and the senses. \u003ci\u003eThe Awakening\u003c\/i\u003e, Kate Chopin's last novel, has been praised by Edmund Wilson as \"beautifully written.\" And Willa Cather described its style as \"exquisite,\" \"sensitive,\" and \"iridescent.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis edition of \u003ci\u003eThe Awakening\u003c\/i\u003e also includes a selection of short stories by Kate Chopin.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cdiv style=\"display:none\"\u003eISBN-10: 055321330X\u003cbr\u003eISBN-13: 9780553213300\u003cbr\u003eAuthor: Chopin, Kate\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Bantam Classics\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Bantam Classics","offers":[{"title":"Mass Market Paperback (Apr 1985)","offer_id":46356682506437,"sku":"9780553213300","price":7.79,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0708\/6414\/2533\/files\/9780553213300.jpg?v=1781310025","url":"https:\/\/www.inveni.store\/products\/the-awakening","provider":"Inveni","version":"1.0","type":"link"}