Kate Chopin's landmark novel of a woman refusing the life arranged for her arrives here alongside a selection of her finest short fiction. The pairing shows how consistently she returned to the same questions.
This collectible edition gathers The Awakening with stories set largely in the American South, where social expectation presses hardest on the characters least able to argue with it. Chopin writes about independence, marriage, desire and self-knowledge with a directness that startled her first readers and still lands. The hardcover presentation makes it as suitable for a shelf or a gift as for study.
This edition covers:
• Chopin's full novel together with a curated set of short stories
• Vivid Louisiana and Southern settings across the selection
• Themes of independence, social expectation and self-discovery
• A collectible hardcover format built for keeping
Suited to literature students, classics collectors and first-time readers of Chopin, available in English at Boipoka.