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The Awakening and Selected Stories of Kate Chopin (Enriched Classics (Pocket)) Description
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.4
EAN: 9780743487672
ISBN: 0743487672
Label: Pocket
Manufacturer: Pocket
Number Of Items: 1
Book Pages: 320
Publication Date: 2004-06-29
Publisher: Pocket
Studio: Pocket
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.4
EAN: 9780743487672
ISBN: 0743487672
Label: Pocket
Manufacturer: Pocket
Number Of Items: 1
Book Pages: 320
Publication Date: 2004-06-29
Publisher: Pocket
Studio: Pocket
Editorial Review of The Awakening and Selected Stories of Kate Chopin (Enriched Classics (Pocket))
BY PRACTICAL SCHOLARSHIP
• A concise introduction that gives readers important background information
• A chronology of the author's life and work
• A timeline of significant events that provides the book's historical context
• An outline of key themes and plot points to help readers form their own interpretations
• Detailed explanatory notes
• Critical analysis, including contemporary and modern perspectives on the work
• Discussion questions to promote lively classroom and book group interaction
• A list of recommended related books and films to broaden the reader's experience
SERIES EDITED BY CYNTHIA BRANTLEY JOHNSON
Customer Reviews of The Awakening and Selected Stories of Kate Chopin (Enriched Classics (Pocket))
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: A Must Read
Review: Author Kate Chopin was certainly ahead of her time. These stories are as fresh as if written in the 21st century. No Victorian prude here. Also be sure to read the foreword. Her personal story will tug at the heart.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: katechopin
Review: The edition is well done since it has a pretty good introduction to the themes and notes as well as excerpts from critics and suggestions for discussion.
What makes ist 4 instead of 5 stars is actually that the information concerning the stories included in the edition did not correspond to the actual book which was kind of a deception because I was expecting to find "The story of an hour".
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Ground breaking story
Review: Imagine being a woman living in the south in the late 1800's. You are married, have two children and very comfortable life style--one might argue your life is near perfect. Overtime you come to realize that your life is not fulfilling. Reading Kate Chopin's short story The Awakening will take the reader through a personal passage in a woman's life when options were very limited. Even more astounding is the story was written and published during the time when the story takes place--scandalous.
The other stories in this book will also give the reader insights into the life and times of people living in New Orleans. They too are engaging.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: the tragedy of a free lover
Review: At the start of the novel, Mrs Pontellier is experiencing the awakening of her consciousness: she is beginning to recognize her relations as an individual to the world within and about her. Her husband, a man of forty, regards her as a valuable piece of personal property. And yet she is the sole "object" of his existence. Why does she seem so little interested in things which concern him? Does she not value his conversation? A vague anguish in Mrs Pontellier is a symptom of something dark developing within. Is this unfamiliar feeling the sign of an inner revolt against Fate? What is the force behind the creation and the dispelling of our moods?
As a young woman of twenty-eight, Edna Pontellier finds herself pondering on the nature of female wisdom. Is it about posing as a mother-as-angel in the home or is there something more? Can a new world be created in front of her, different from the one in which she had been living? Can a woman have access to a kind of wisdom belonging to the spirit, that only men had been previously vouchsafed? Edna is learning the pleasure of getting lost in the maze of inner contemplation. She wants to learn whether life has been the result of accident or the decree of Fate.
The moon, the sea water and Chopin seem to cast a mystic spell upon her soul. Exulting with these feelings, she aims to conquer her own self, a feat prohibited to women at the time. The winter after the summer holidays at Grand Isle, and after her "friend" Robert has gone to Mexico, Edna Pontellier has already given certain steps towards the delirium of selfhood she craves for: she will only do as she pleases, and what she pleases the most is art. Is she not growing a little unbalanced mentally? For her, art is ultimately related to the rights of women. But, does she possess the "absolute" gifts, those which are not acquired by one's effort?
Edna Pontellier considers that it is not to late for her to accomplish her fight for freedom and independence. She plans to move to a tiny house and live by herself. She has resolved never again to belong to anyone but herself. And yet when she does surrender it is not to love but to a momentary passion, perhaps as a consequence of her ennui: "the hopelessness which so often assailed her, which came upon her like an obsession, like something extraneous, independent of volition". Yet every step which she takes towards relieving herself from obligations adds to her strength and expansion as an individual. Can we be indifferent to the consequences of abandoning ourselves to Fate? "She was blindly following whatever impulse moved her, as if she had placed herself in alien hands for direction, and freed her soul of responsibility."
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Far ahead of her time
Review: Stories include: (Wiser Than a god, A Point at Issue!, A Shameful Affair, Miss McEnders, At the 'Cadian Ball, Desiree's baby, Madame Celestin's Divorce, A Lady of Bayou St. John, La Belle Zoraide A Respectable Woman, The Story of an Hour, Regret, The Kiss, Athenaise, A Pair of Silk Stockings, The Storm, Charlie). Some of the short stories seem repetitive, but The Awakening is wonderful, especially considering when it was written and how much Chopin went through as a result of publishing this scandalous tale. She tells the story of a woman realizing her sexuality and the feminist ideas she conveys are far ahead of her time.
Review Summary: A Must Read
Review: Author Kate Chopin was certainly ahead of her time. These stories are as fresh as if written in the 21st century. No Victorian prude here. Also be sure to read the foreword. Her personal story will tug at the heart.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: katechopin
Review: The edition is well done since it has a pretty good introduction to the themes and notes as well as excerpts from critics and suggestions for discussion.
What makes ist 4 instead of 5 stars is actually that the information concerning the stories included in the edition did not correspond to the actual book which was kind of a deception because I was expecting to find "The story of an hour".
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Ground breaking story
Review: Imagine being a woman living in the south in the late 1800's. You are married, have two children and very comfortable life style--one might argue your life is near perfect. Overtime you come to realize that your life is not fulfilling. Reading Kate Chopin's short story The Awakening will take the reader through a personal passage in a woman's life when options were very limited. Even more astounding is the story was written and published during the time when the story takes place--scandalous.
The other stories in this book will also give the reader insights into the life and times of people living in New Orleans. They too are engaging.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: the tragedy of a free lover
Review: At the start of the novel, Mrs Pontellier is experiencing the awakening of her consciousness: she is beginning to recognize her relations as an individual to the world within and about her. Her husband, a man of forty, regards her as a valuable piece of personal property. And yet she is the sole "object" of his existence. Why does she seem so little interested in things which concern him? Does she not value his conversation? A vague anguish in Mrs Pontellier is a symptom of something dark developing within. Is this unfamiliar feeling the sign of an inner revolt against Fate? What is the force behind the creation and the dispelling of our moods?
As a young woman of twenty-eight, Edna Pontellier finds herself pondering on the nature of female wisdom. Is it about posing as a mother-as-angel in the home or is there something more? Can a new world be created in front of her, different from the one in which she had been living? Can a woman have access to a kind of wisdom belonging to the spirit, that only men had been previously vouchsafed? Edna is learning the pleasure of getting lost in the maze of inner contemplation. She wants to learn whether life has been the result of accident or the decree of Fate.
The moon, the sea water and Chopin seem to cast a mystic spell upon her soul. Exulting with these feelings, she aims to conquer her own self, a feat prohibited to women at the time. The winter after the summer holidays at Grand Isle, and after her "friend" Robert has gone to Mexico, Edna Pontellier has already given certain steps towards the delirium of selfhood she craves for: she will only do as she pleases, and what she pleases the most is art. Is she not growing a little unbalanced mentally? For her, art is ultimately related to the rights of women. But, does she possess the "absolute" gifts, those which are not acquired by one's effort?
Edna Pontellier considers that it is not to late for her to accomplish her fight for freedom and independence. She plans to move to a tiny house and live by herself. She has resolved never again to belong to anyone but herself. And yet when she does surrender it is not to love but to a momentary passion, perhaps as a consequence of her ennui: "the hopelessness which so often assailed her, which came upon her like an obsession, like something extraneous, independent of volition". Yet every step which she takes towards relieving herself from obligations adds to her strength and expansion as an individual. Can we be indifferent to the consequences of abandoning ourselves to Fate? "She was blindly following whatever impulse moved her, as if she had placed herself in alien hands for direction, and freed her soul of responsibility."
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Far ahead of her time
Review: Stories include: (Wiser Than a god, A Point at Issue!, A Shameful Affair, Miss McEnders, At the 'Cadian Ball, Desiree's baby, Madame Celestin's Divorce, A Lady of Bayou St. John, La Belle Zoraide A Respectable Woman, The Story of an Hour, Regret, The Kiss, Athenaise, A Pair of Silk Stockings, The Storm, Charlie). Some of the short stories seem repetitive, but The Awakening is wonderful, especially considering when it was written and how much Chopin went through as a result of publishing this scandalous tale. She tells the story of a woman realizing her sexuality and the feminist ideas she conveys are far ahead of her time.