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Эдна Понтелье проводит лето с мужем и детьми на берегу Мексиканского залива в пансионе семьи Лебрен. Знакомство с Робертом Лебреном что-то меняет в Эдне, их дружба пробуждает в ней мысли и чувства незнакомые ей раньше, в ней просыпается прежняя страсть к рисованию. Но вот лето подходит к концу, жильцы пансиона возвращаются домой, а Роберт внезапно объявляет, что уезжает попытать счастья в Мексику, и хочет остаться там навегда, это сильно опечаливает Эдну, хотя она и не понимает почему. Вернувшись в Новый Орлеан, Эдна тоскует по Роберту, переосмысляет свою семейную жизнь и решает меньше заниматься обязанностями хозяйки, а больше рисованием.…

While spending the summer in the resort of Grand Isle with her husband and children, Edna Pontellier begins a process of self-discovery that is accelerated after she meets the charming Robert Lebrun. Yet, when Robert departs for Mexico and the summer vacation ends, Ednas new-found sense of independence and personal freedom mean that she isolates herself from New Orleans society and rejects her former lifestyle. Moving into a home of her own and choosing a lover, Edna soon becomes a protegee of the unconventional pianist Mademoiselle Reisz, through whom she learns that Robert still longs for her. Centring upon the conflict between Ednas…

HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics. "I would give up the unessential; I would give my money, I would give my life for my children; but I wouldn't give myself". Heralded as one of the first instances of feminist literature and rejected at its time of publication by the literary set on grounds of moral distaste, Kate Chopin's The Awakening caused consternation in 1899. Constrained and confined by the limitations surrounding marriage and motherhood in the late 1800s, Edna Pontellier begins to challenge the notion of femininity through her thoughts and actions. Questioning her love for her husband, and…

Condemned as “sordid” and “immoral” on its publication in 1899, this story of a woman trapped in her marriage effectively ended Chopin’s career but was revived as a proto-feminist classic in the 1970s. What Newsweek calls Chopin’s “prophetic psychology” insures its timeliness today.

This story of a woman's struggle with oppressive social structures received much public contempt at its first release; put aside because of initial controversy, the novel gained popularity in the 1960s, some six decades after its first publication, and has since remained a favorite of many readers. Chopin's depiction of a married woman, bound to her family and with no way to assert a fulfilling life of her own, has become a foundation for feminism and a classic account of gender crises in the late Victorian era.

When first published in 1899, `The Awakening` shocked readers with its honest treatment of female marital infidelity. Audiences accustomed to the pieties of late Victorian romantic fiction were taken aback by Chopin`s daring portrayal of a woman

First published in 1899, this novel shocked readers with its open sensuality and uninhibited treatment of marital infidelity. The poignant, lyrical story of a New Orleans wife who attempts to find love outside a stifling marriage, critics have praised it as a forerunner of the modern novel. New introductory Note.

Kate Chopin’s riveting, daring story of one woman’s search for personal freedom was so far ahead of its time that its publication in 1899 aroused a storm of controversy violent enough to end its author’s career. With an effortless, sure-handed artistry, Chopin tells the story of Edna Pontellier, a young mother and model wife, whose romantic involvement with a young man during a vacation at a seaside resort allows her for the first time to imagine a new, freer life. Upon her return to New Orleans, Edna leaves her husband’s home for her own cottage and begins an affair, only to discover that the constraints of social custom may be more…

First published in 1899, this beautiful, brief novel so disturbed critics and the public that it was banished for decades afterward. Now widely read and admired, The Awakening has been hailed as an early vision of woman’s emancipation. 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. 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. Here, a woman in search of…

Блестящая красавица Эдна Понтелье вместе с мужем и двумя замечательными ребятишками проводит лето в курортном городке Гранд Айл. Неожиданная встреча Эдны с Робертом, очаровательным молодым человеком, внезапно изменяет спокойную и размеренную жизнь женщины.

Впервые на русском языке публикуется роман Кейт Шопен "Пробуждение" - одно из величайших произведений в американской литературе. Вышедший в свет в 1899 году, роман шокировал читателей и критиков. Автора обвиняли в беспутстве. И хотя книга не была запрещена, ее подвергли цензуре. Это привело к тому, что творчество Кейт Шопен долгое время оставалось незамеченным. Как и большинство великих произведений, критикуемых при жизни, "Пробуждение" признали лишь много лет спустя. Блестящая красавица Эдна Понтелье вместе с мужем и двумя замечательными ребятишками проводит лето в курортном городке Гранд Айл. Неожиданная встреча Эдны с Робертом,…

The Awakening, originally titled A Solitary Soul, is the story of Edna Pontellier and her struggle between her increasingly unorthodox views on femininity and motherhood with the prevailing social attitudes of the turn-of-the-century American South. The novel is set in New Orleans and on the Louisiana Gulf coast at the end of the 19th century, and it is one of the earliest American novels that focuses on women's issues without condescension. It is also widely seen as a landmark work of early feminism, generating a mixed reaction from contemporary readers and critics. Kate Chopin (1850-1904) was an American author of short stories and…

The Awakening shocked turn-of-the-century readers with its forthright treatment of sex and suicide. Departing from literary convention, Kate Chopin failed to condemn her heroine's desire for an affair with the son of a Louisiana resort owner, whom she meets on vacation. The power of sensuality, the delusion of ecstatic love, and the solitude that accompanies the trappings of middle- and upper-class life are the themes of this now-classic novel. As Kaye Gibbons points out in her Introduction, Chopin «was writing American realism before most Americans could bear to hear that they were living it.»