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The Awakening, and Selected Short Stories
The Awakening, and Selected Short Stories | Kate Chopin
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The Awakening, and Selected Short Stories:First published in 1899, this beautiful, brief novel so disturbed critics and the public that it was banished for decades afterward. Now widely read and admired,The Awakeninghas been hailed as an early vision of woman's emancipation. This sensuous book tells of a woman's abandonment of her family, her seduction, and her awakening to desires and passions that threaten to consume her. Originally entitledA Solitary Soul, this portrait of twenty-eight-year-old Edna Pontellier is a landmark in American fiction, rooted firmly in the romantic tradition of Herman Melville and Emily Dickinson. Here, a woman engaged in self-discovery turns away from convention and society and toward the primal, from convention and society, and toward the primal, irresistibly attracted to nature and the senses.The Awakening, Kate Chopin's last novel, has been praised by Edmund Wilson as "beautifully written." And Willa Cather described its style as "exquisite," "sensitive," and "iridescent."
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DarcysMom
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DarcysMom
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I am struggling with this book. So far, I don't like the characters or slow pace of the action. I am actually tempted to bail. Are the other stories any better than The Awakening?

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BookishMarginalia
The awakening and selected short stories | Marilynne Robinson, Kate Chopin
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After coaching students to give and receive feedback on their essays about The Awakening, I'm now checking their multiple choice practice tests... with the help of a little coffee gift from @gibblr 💜👍🏼 #teachersofLitsy

Mdargusch How did your students like the book? It's one of my favorites. 7y
Josie English was always my favorite subject. Your posts make me miss it!! 7y
BookishMarginalia @Mdargusch Most of my students don't really get how much of a bird in a cage Edna really was and have little sympathy initially. They enjoyed Atwood's The Penelopiad much more. 7y
BookishMarginalia @Josie Thanks! 😊 7y
Jae Love Kate Chopin! 7y
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A woman who goes against society's expectations of her in the 1900's? I can see why this book made quite a few people angry. Post-It drawing from a favorite scene as usual.

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Nerdfins
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This, my fellow readers, is what we call a Dick Move. If someone did this to me they would be finding the spine of the book smacking them in the nose.

TrishB Absolutely 😬😬 7y
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Nerdfins
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Day 3 of Lung Plague 2017. Still stuck at home. Loki is doing her best as my kitty nurse while I continue reading this controversial novel. I have my regular two days off soon so hopefully I'll be cured by Saturday when I return to work.

SuperPunkNinja Feel better! 7y
Nerdfins @McShelfington Thank you! 7y
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Nerdfins
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I'm stuck home with whatever lung plague is going around work, but at least I can read in peace today. Also I get to snuggle with this happy girl. #catsoflitsy

Dolly 💖😻 7y
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Nerdfins

My #litsyatoz so far:
B: Bitch Planet
F: Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell
S: The Stranger by Albert Camus (okay I finished it an hour before 2017 but I'm counting it.)
And right now I'm working on The Awakening and Selected Short Fiction for A.

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Nerdfins
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Kind of hard to do when customers call in making me have to do my job. 💻 At least said job helps me buy more books to be distracted from.

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Nerdfins
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There was a moment of panic when I realized I would finish Fangirl at work with no other book to read after. Then my husband came through and brought me this. I love that man.