The Awakening & Other Short Stories Illustrated

Download or read book The Awakening & Other Short Stories Illustrated written by Kate Chopin and published by . This book was released on 2020-07-06 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Awakening is a novel by Kate Chopin, first published in 1899. Set in New Orleans and on the Louisiana Gulf coast at the end of the 19th century, the plot centers on Edna Pontellier and her struggle between her increasingly unorthodox views on femininity and motherhood with the prevailing social attitudes of the turn-of-the-century American South.