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THE AWAKENING AND SELECTED STORIES PB
- Εκδότης: PENGUIN
- Συγγραφέας: KATE CHOPIN
- Isbn: 9780142437322
- Διαστάσεις: 197Χ129Χ16
- Αριθμός σελίδων: 288
- Ημερομηνία έκδοσης: 23/4/2003
- Διαθεσιμότητα: ΔΙΑΘΕΣΙΜΟ Αποστολή σε 5 - 10 εργάσιμες ημέρες (θα ενημερωθείτε με email για την ακριβή ημερομηνία, ανάλογα με την διαθεσιμότητα του εκδότη)
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"The Awakening and Selected Stories is Kate Chopin's groundbreaking depiction of a woman who dares to defy the expectations of society in the pursuit of her desire, edited with an introduction by Sandra M. Gilbert in Penguin Classics. When 'The Awakening' was first published in 1899, charges of sordidness and immorality seemed to consign it into obscurity and irreparably damage its author's reputation. But a century after her death, it is widely regarded as Kate Chopin's great achievement. Through careful, subtle changes of style, Chopin shows the transformation of Edna Pontellier, a young wife and mother, who - with tragic consequences - refuses to be caged by married and domestic life, and claims for herself moral and erotic freedom. In her introduction, Sandra M. Gilbert considers the issues explored in the novel and the stories collected here (including 'Emancipation', 'At the 'cadian Ball', and 'Desiree's baby') from their growth out of the feminist literary tradition of the nineteenth century, to thei