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Title: The Awakening, and Other Stories (Rinehart Editions, 142) by Kate Chopin, Lewis Gaston Leary ISBN: 0-03-078395-X Publisher: Thompson Internl Pub. Date: November, 1997 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $32.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (3 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Worth reading (The Awakening)
Comment: This book is certainly not for the illiterate dime novel crowd. It is a story of one woman's struggle to find herself within the narrow confines of Victorian society. The situations and characters are well developed and some literacy in French is helpful but not required. If you read a bit about Kate Chopin the main character seems to be fairly autobiographical at least where rebellion from female conformity was concerned. The book is not a new idea, a person finding their wings and learning to fly. But the idea of a female doing this in Victorian society was brand new. The book was considered obscene and subversive at the time and that alone makes it worth reading.
Rating: 5
Summary: a counterpoint to the last review
Comment: I got turned on to KC in college through one story--The Storm--and a little background on her (she wrote ahead of her time, was published and then forgotten until the 1960's Feminist Movement dug her up again). She became one of those authors I lodge in the back of my head to investigate later. I happened upon this wonderful book at the book tent at New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Fest and grabbed it. The book gives a great introduction to her and her time. I was lucky enough to read The Awakening and some of her other short stories while staying at Grand Isle. She was and is a great writer. She wrote from a viewpoint that bucked the norms of her time---the late 1800's, she wrote of women who didnt fit the mold of mommy and wife. She wrote eloquently of an area, era, and culture that I love...New Orleans, Cajun Country, and Grand Isle amongst others. I dont write many reviews, but after reading the only other review for this book I felt a different opinion should be heard. She is a good read.
Rating: 2
Summary: Yeah, yeah, A sense of SELF
Comment: I read this because It was listed as a "great book". Why, I don't know. Maybe at the time it was risque. Imagine the horror! A wife, not happy with just being a wife! Soon she begins to realize that she is an indvidual who has her own sexual desires, so she trapses around town with men while her husband is away on business. It was a labor to read this, but I always finish. You however- I would not reccomend picking this up.
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Title: Sleeping on the Wing : An Anthology of Modern Poetry with Essays on Reading and Writing by KATE FARRELL, KENNETH KOCH ISBN: 0394743644 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 12 February, 1982 List Price(USD): $11.00 |
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Title: Contemporary Mathematics in Context: Course 2 Part A by Coxford, Fey ISBN: 1570394830 Publisher: Everyday Learning Corp Pub. Date: June, 1998 List Price(USD): $35.96 |
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Title: These United States: The Questions of Our Past: Combined Concise Edition by Irwin Unger ISBN: 0130815519 Publisher: Prentice Hall Pub. Date: 12 November, 1998 List Price(USD): $58.00 |
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Title: The Odyssey by Homer, Robert Fagles, Bernard Knox ISBN: 0140268863 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: 29 November, 1999 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: The TEMPEST by William Shakespeare ISBN: 0671722905 Publisher: Washington Square Press Pub. Date: 01 May, 1994 List Price(USD): $3.99 |
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