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The Awakening
Paperback
Publisher Price: $18.95
Publisher: Lushena Books
Published: Oct 21 2025
Pages: 150
Weight: 0.53
Height: 0.41 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
The Awakening by Kate Chopin is a novel about Edna Pontellier, a married woman in late 19th-century Louisiana, who begins to question her role as wife and mother. During a summer vacation, she experiences an emotional and sexual awakening, developing feelings for a man named Robert Lebrun. After returning home, Edna rejects society's expectations-pursuing independence, art, and her own desires. However, she finds herself trapped between her longing for freedom and the constraints of social convention. In the end, unable to reconcile these conflicts, she walks into the sea, symbolically choosing liberation through death.
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