The awakening and other stories / Kate Chopin ; edited by Nina Baym ; introducton by Kaye Gibbons.
Material type: TextPublication details: New York : Modern Library, c2000.Description: lix, 375 p. ; 21 cmISBN:- 0679783334 (acidfree paper) :
- 9780679783336 (acid-free paper)
- 813/.4 21
Item type | Current library | Collection | Shelving location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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High Demand | Phillipsburg Free Public Library | Adult Fiction | Adult Fiction | FIC CHO | Available | 36748001680778 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Introduction by Kaye Gibbons
Edited and with notes by Nina Baym
Commentary by Elizabeth Blackwell, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and from The Picayune's Creole Cook Book
The Awakening shocked turn-of-the-century readers with its forthright treatment of sex and suicide. Departing from literary convention, Kate Chopin failed to condemn her heroine's desire for an affair with the son of a Louisiana resort owner whom she meets on vacation. The power of sensuality, the delusion of ecstatic love, and the solitude that accompanies the trappings of middle- and upper-class life are the themes of this now-classic novel. As Kaye Gibbons points out in her Introduction, Chopin "was writing American realism before most Americans could bear to hear that they were living it." This edition includes selected stories from Chopin's Bayou Folk and A Night in Acadie .
Includes a Modern Library Reading Group Guide
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- The Awakening and Other Stories (p. i)
- Oxford World's Classics (p. ii)
- Acknowledgements (p. vii)
- Introduction (p. ix)
- Note on the Texts (p. xliv)
- Select Bibilography (p. xlix)
- A Chronology of Kate Chopin (p. lvi)
- The Awakening and Other Stories (p. 1)
- Wiser Than a God (p. 129)
- A Point at Issue! (p. 139)
- The Maid of Saint Phillippe (p. 156)
- Doctor Chevalier's Lie (p. 164)
- Beyond the Bayou (p. 166)
- Old Aunt Peggy (p. 173)
- Ripe Figs (p. 174)
- Miss McEnders (p. 175)
- At the 'Cadian Ball (p. 183)
- The Father of Désirée's Baby (p. 193)
- Caline (p. 199)
- A Matter of Prejudice (p. 202)
- Azélie (p. 209)
- A Lady of Bayou St. John (p. 218)
- Tonie (p. 229)
- A Gentleman of Bayou Teche (p. 240)
- In Sabine (p. 246)
- A Respectable Woman (p. 255)
- The Dream of an Hour (p. 259)
- Lilacs (p. 262)
- Regret (p. 274)
- The Kiss (p. 278)
- Her Letters (p. 281)
- Athénaïse (p. 289)
- The Unexpected (p. 320)
- Vagabonds (p. 324)
- A Pair of Silk Stockings (p. 327)
- An Egyptian Cigarette (p. 332)
- Elizabeth Stock's One Story (p. 336)
- The Storm A Sequel to "The'Cadian Ball" (p. 342)
- Appendix: Louisiana Observed: Regional Writing and Kate Chopin's People and Languages (p. 348)
- Explanatory Notes (p. 360)
- Glossary (p. 408)