The Awakening and Selected Short Stories

This volume contains the Kate Chopin novel, “The Awakening”. It was first published in 1899. Set in the USA in New Orleans and on the Louisiana Gulf coast at the end of the 19th century, the plot centers on Edna Pontellier and her struggle between her increasingly unorthodox views on femininity and motherhood with the prevailing social attitudes of the turn-of-the-century American South. It is one of the earliest...