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Title: The Awakening: An Authoritative Text Biographical and Historical Contexts Criticism (A Norton Critical Edition) by Kate Chopin, Margo Culley ISBN: 0-393-96057-9 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: January, 1994 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $10.65 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (3 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Perfect Edition
Comment: This edition of The Awakening is a beautifully compiled work. I found it incredibly insightful as I used it for research papers in high school and college. The essays and criticism from Chopin's era are priceless. It was so helpful to have those along with the text, they really gave insight one could not find elsewhere. The Awakening continues to be my favorite book, this my favorite edition. If you are going to write a paper on this book or Chopin there is no other book that will help you more.
Rating: 5
Summary: quietly submersed
Comment: Kate Chopin's "The Awakening" is the classic novel about women that "Madame Bovary" purports to be but isn't. It's not just a "woman's" novel, though, it perfectly (and poetically) captures the inner life of a solitary person who is forced to live for the sake of others. And while this has been a distinctly female position for a large part of Western history, it is a position that can be identified with by just about anyone in our current age of employee internet-use monitoring. This is a twentieth-century tale of discomfort with and reaction to antagonistic surroundings. For those of us who don't feel the need to procreate in an overpopulated world, Edna's (and presumably Chopin's) discomfort with children will make sense. For those of us who may not always know exactly what we want out of life, this story will strike a chord.
Kate Chopin's writing is deliberate but not labored. She is particularly successful at depicting ambiguity in a way which is highly descriptive and communicative. This is a skill which I can't praise highly enough, and it culminates in an ending which is absolutely perfect. While criticism could be raised against "The Awakening" as another apology for the suicidal artist, Edna's literal and symbolic escape is less pretentious than Harry's in "Steppenwolfe," nor as indecipherable as that of any of Joyce's creations. Kate Chopin's novel is truly a classic in the sense that it should be a part of any survey of American literature. The Norton Critical edition is the best way to go, too, with helpful biographical information and literary criticism. If you want a more enriching experience with this novel, I'd highly recommend this version.
Rating: 5
Summary: "Coming of Age" novel of women in society
Comment: I read this book when I accepted a challenge to be more aware of the authors I chose to read -- i.e., deliberately read more books by women, by minority authors, and by third-world authors.
A friend recommended five books by women, all of which I loved. "The Awakening" is a fascinating look at women's place in society at a point in time when things are beginning to change. The female characters in this novel are not two-dimensional, moving about in silent submission to oppressive patriarchal authority; rather, they are presented as individuals with thoughts, desires, feelings, etc. of their own. While by today's standards this is not a revolutionary idea, at the time Chopin was writing, it was rather novel.
This book, then, served as a fascinating glimpse into a world that is past -- a world that was on the brink of change. Even if this were not a gripping story in its own right (which, by all means, it is), "The Awakening" would be worth reading simply for this social-historical vision.
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Title: Unveiling Kate Chopin by Emily Toth ISBN: 1578061024 Publisher: Univ Pr of Mississippi (Trd) Pub. Date: March, 1999 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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Title: Kate Chopin: A Critical Biography by Per Seyersted ISBN: 080710678X Publisher: Louisiana State University Press Pub. Date: June, 1980 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: Awakening by Kate Chopin ISBN: 0380002450 Publisher: Avon Pub. Date: 10 February, 1982 List Price(USD): $4.50 |
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Title: Kate Chopin's the Awakening (Bloom's Notes) by Harold Bloom, Kate Chopin ISBN: 0791049191 Publisher: Chelsea House Pub (Library) Pub. Date: June, 1999 List Price(USD): $4.95 |
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Title: Maggie: A Girl of the Streets by Stephen Crane ISBN: 0449300242 Publisher: Fawcett Books Pub. Date: 12 February, 1985 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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