The Awakening [electronic resource] / Kate Chopin.
Edna Pontellier is married, twenty-eight, and at a crossroads in her life. She is passionate and artistic but has no one who understands her deep yearnings. She jumps at the chance to spend a summer away from her husband and the heat of New Orleans at a small coastal retreat.Enveloped by a small circle of friends, she begins to throw off the strictures of the 1890s bourgeoisie. Stepwise, Edna renounces her obligations, takes a lover, and is propelled on a course that frees, consumes, and eventually destroys her.In what was to be her last novel, Kate Chopin shocked the audiences of her day by depicting a woman being fulfilled by throwing off the ties of marriage and children.
Electronic resources
Record details
- ISBN: 9781400129072
- ISBN: 1400129079
- Physical Description: 1 online resource (1 audio file (300 min.)) : digital.
- Edition: Unabridged.
- Publisher: [United States] : Tantor Media, Inc., 2009.
- Distributor: Made available through hoopla
Content descriptions
- Restrictions on Access Note:
- Flex title available through hoopla.
- Participant or Performer Note:
- Read by Shelly Frasier.
- System Details Note:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
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- Subject:
- Literature > Fiction.
- Genre:
- Romance fiction.
Fiction.
