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The Awakening
English BooksWhale Edition by Kate Chopin
Edna Pontellier’s search for selfhood, desire, art, motherhood, and freedom in Creole Louisiana.
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The Awakening
The Awakening follows Edna Pontellier as the expectations of marriage, motherhood, class, and society press against her growing sense of inward freedom. Kate Chopin’s novel moves through Grand Isle and New Orleans to explore desire, art, solitude, female autonomy, social judgment, and the cost of awakening to one’s own life.
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Kate Chopin died in 1904, and The Awakening was first published in 1899. These dates support the public-domain basis for this original-language edition.
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The Awakening
by Kate Chopin
THE AWAKENING I II III IV V VI VII VIII IX X XI XII XIII XIV XV XVI XVII XVIII XIX XX XXI XXII XXIII XXIV XXV XXVI XXVII XXVIII XXIX XXX XXXI XXXII XXXIII XXXIV XXXV XXXVI XXXVII XXXVIII XXXIX
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MA’AME PÉLAGIE I II III IV
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- 01Full text
- 02BEYOND THE BAYOU
- 03DÉSIRÉE’S BABY
- 04A RESPECTABLE WOMAN
- 05THE KISS
- 06A PAIR OF SILK STOCKINGS
- 07THE LOCKET I II
- 08A REFLECTION
- 09THE AWAKENING
- 10VIII
- 11XIII
- 12XVII
- 13XVIII
- 14XXII
- 15XXIII
- 16XXIV
- 17XXVI
- 18XXVII
- 19XXVIII
- 20XXIX
- 21XXXI
- 22XXXII
- 23XXXIII
- 24XXXIV
- 25XXXV
- 26XXXVI
- 27XXXVII
- 28XXXVIII
- 29XXXIX
- 30BEYOND THE BAYOU
- 31MA’AME PÉLAGIE
- 32DÉSIRÉE’S BABY
- 33A RESPECTABLE WOMAN
- 34THE KISS
- 35A PAIR OF SILK STOCKINGS
- 36THE LOCKET
- 37A REFLECTION
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