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The Awakening (Golden Deer Classics)
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Verlag: | Oregan Publishing |
Format: | EPUB |
Veröffentl.: | 10.06.2017 |
ISBN/EAN: | 9782377872633 |
Sprache: | englisch |
Anzahl Seiten: | 100 |
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Beschreibungen
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 "e;was writing American realism before most Americans could bear to hear that they were living it."e;