The Awakening

Name: The Awakening
Author: Kate Chopin

by Kate Chopin

Novel of a woman's sexual and emotional awakening leading to self-destruction and freedom

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Kate Chopin

Kate Chopin's The Awakening was a groundbreaking feminist novel about a woman's quest for selfhood and sexual autonomy, scandalous upon publication and rediscovered a century later as a classic. Her Louisiana stories capture Creole culture with vivid sympathy.

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