The Awakening

by KateChopin (Author)

• Used

  Paperback
  1999

  $3.28

  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.

• Used

  Paperback
  1994

  $3.28

• New

  Paperback
  1994

  $6.29

• New

  Hardcover
  1992

  $14.18

  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.