The awakening, and other stories /:

In the summer of her 28th year, Edna Pontellier and her children, along with the wives and families of other prospective businessmen, spend the summer in an idyllic coastal community away from their husbands and the sweltering heat of 1890s' New Orleans. Aware of deep yearnings that are unfulfi...

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Main Author: Chopin, Kate, 1850-1904
Other Authors: Knights, Pamela
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford [England] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2000.
Series:Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press)
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Online Access:DE-862
DE-863
Summary:In the summer of her 28th year, Edna Pontellier and her children, along with the wives and families of other prospective businessmen, spend the summer in an idyllic coastal community away from their husbands and the sweltering heat of 1890s' New Orleans. Aware of deep yearnings that are unfulfilled by marriage and motherhood, Edna plunges into an illicit liaison that reawakens her long dormant desires, inflames her heart, and eventually blinds her to all else.
Physical Description:1 online resource (lx, 410 pages)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages xlix-lv).
ISBN:9780191560880
019156088X
9781280680120
1280680121
9786613657053
6613657050

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