AWAKENING AND OTHER STORIES - Penguin

THE AWAKENING AND SELECTED STORIES When it was published in 1899, changes of sordidness and immorality consigned this classic into initial obscurity and irreparably damaged its author's literary and social reputation. Through carefully, subtle changes of style, Chopin shows the transformation of End Pontellier, a young wife and mother who - with tragic consequences - refuse to be caged by married and domestic life and claims for herself moral and erotic freedom. In her introduction, Sandra M. Gilbert considers the issues explored in the novel and the stories collected here - from their growth out of the feminist literary tradition of the nineteenth century, to their place among other concerns of fin de si