![]() ![]() "This seems to me a higher order of feminism than repeating the story of woman as victim. , Kate Chopin's last novel, has been praised by Edmund Wilson as "beautifully written." And Willa Cather described its style as "exquisite," "sensitive," and "iridescent." This edition ofĪlso includes a selection of short stories by Kate Chopin. Here, a woman in search of self-discovery turns away from convention and society, and toward the primal, from convention and society, and toward the primal, irresistibly attracted to nature and the senses Originally entitled "A Solitary Soul," this portrait of twenty-eight-year-old Edna Pontellier is a landmark in American fiction, rooted firmly in the romantic tradition of Herman Melville and Emily Dickinson. This sensuous book tells of a woman's abandonment of her family, her seduction, and her awakening to desires and passions that threated to consumer her. ![]() Has been hailed as an early vision of woman's emancipation. ![]() First published in 1899, this beautiful, brief novel so disturbed critics and the public that it was banished for decades afterward. ![]()
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