The Awakening (Case Study in Contemporary Criticism)

by Nancy A. Walker (Editor)

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  Illustrated
  1999

  $26.00

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  Paperback
  1999

  $3.30

  Edna Pontellier, a young married woman with two small children gradually awakens, to her individuality and sexuality and experiences love outside of her passionless marriage.

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  Paperback
  1994

  $6.31

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  Hardcover
  1992

  $14.24

  The heroine of this story, Edna Pontellier, goes through the stages of a compelling but ultimately tragic search for personal freedom. On publication in 1899, this book provided a frank treatment on adultery which aroused a storm of controversy.