The Awakening (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781935554127)

She wanted to swim far out, where no woman had swum before.

Condemned as "sordid" and "immoral" on its publication in 1899, this story of a woman trapped in her marriage effectively ended Chopin's career but was revived as a proto-feminist classic in the 1970s. What Newsweek calls Chopin's "prophetic psychology" ensures its timeliness today.

The Art of The Novella Series

Too short to be a novel, too long to be a short story, the novella is generally unrecognized by academics and publishers. Nonetheless, it is a form beloved and practiced by literature's greatest writers. In the Art Of The Novella series, Melville House celebrates this renegade art form and its practitioners with titles that are, in many instances, presented in book form for the first time.

Author: Kate Chopin
ISBN-10: 1935554123
ISBN-13: 9781935554127
Publisher: Melville House Publishing
Language: English
Published: 08/31/2010
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 7.06h x 5.04w x 0.65d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 8.5
Point Value: 12
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 15836 / Awakening