The Awakening
By Kate Chopin
- Release Date: 2012-06-03
- Genre: Classics
Score: 3.5
3.5
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The Awakening by Kate Chopin is a novel set in New Orleans and the Louisiana coast at the end of the nineteenth century. The story centers around Edna Pontellier and her struggle to reconcile her unorthodox views on femininity and motherhood with the prevailing social attitudes of the South.