The Awakening and Selected Stories

Kate Chopin, Nina Baym, Kaye Gibbons

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English

Modern Library Inc
15 December 2000

Classic fiction (pre c 1945); Short stories

Series: Modern Library Classics

Introduction by Kaye Gibbons

Edited and with notes by Nina Baym

Commentary by Elizabeth Blackwell, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and from The Picayune's Creole Cook Book

The Awakening shocked turn-of-the-century readers with its forthright treatment of sex and suicide. Departing from literary convention, Kate Chopin failed to condemn her heroine's desire for an affair with the son of a Louisiana resort owner whom she meets on vacation. The power of sensuality, the delusion of ecstatic love, and the solitude that accompanies the trappings of middle- and upper-class life are the themes of this now-classic novel. As Kaye Gibbons points out in her Introduction, Chopin ""was writing American realism before most Americans could bear to hear that they were living it."" This edition includes selected stories from Chopin's Bayou Folk and A Night in Acadie.

Includes a Modern Library Reading Group Guide

By: Kate Chopin
Introduction by: Kaye Gibbons
Edited by: Nina Baym
Imprint: Modern Library Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 201mm, Width: 133mm, Spine: 26mm
Weight: 363g
ISBN: 9780679783336
ISBN 10: 0679783334
Series: Modern Library Classics
Pages: 448
Publication Date: 15 December 2000
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Kaye Gibbons is the author of Ellen Foster, A Virtuous Woman, and On the Occasion of My Last Afternoon, among other books.