Kate Chopin

Broschiertes Buch

The Awakening and Selected Stories

Beschreibung

A woman who dares to defy expectations of society in pursuit of her desire. But a century after her death, it is regarded as the author's achievement. This book shows 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 erotic freedom.

Autor

Kate Chopin (1851-1904) did not write until she was thirty-six years old. Her first novel, At Fault (1890), had difficulty finding a publisher, so she brought it out at her own expense. From her many stories, she culled two well-reviewed collections: Bayou Folk in 1894 and A Night in Acadie in 1897. The Awakening, now her best-known work, appeared in 1899.  Claire Vaye Watkins is the author of Battleborn and Gold Fame Citrus. Her stories and essays have appeared in Granta, One Story, The Paris Review, Ploughshares, and elsewhere. A Guggenheim Fellow, one of the National Book Foundation's "5 Under 35" and Granta's "Best Young American Novelists," Claire is the director and co-founder of the Mojave School, a festival of art and literature in the Mojave Desert.

Produktdetails

• Penguin Classics
• Verlag: Penguin US
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 75355
• Seitenzahl: 290
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Februar 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 197mm x 129mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 214g
• ISBN-13: 9780142437322
• ISBN-10: 0142437328
• Artikelnr.: 14922371

Rezensionen

"A Creole Bovary is this little novel of Miss Chopin's."
--Willa Cather