The Awakening (A Women's Press classic)

by KateChopin (Author)

• Used

  Paperback
  2002

  $3.48

  Edna Pontellier is a young woman living comfortably in the beautiful city of New Orleans. She is fond of her husband and proud of her sons but finds it impossible to accept that for women it is a holy privilege to efface themselves as individuals . She fights back in the only manner she knows.

• 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.

• 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.