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The Awakening

Kate Chopin

First published 1899

During a summer on Grand Isle, Edna Pontellier begins to question the roles that marriage, motherhood, and polite society have assigned her. Music, friendship, desire, and artistic ambition awaken a growing need for independence. Kate Chopin follows that transformation with clear-eyed attention to freedom, responsibility, solitude, and the costs of claiming a life as one's own.

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