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Presents an annotated edition of the 1899 novel about a Victorian-era woman who finds passionate physical love with a young man she meets while on vacation; and includes biographical, historical, and cultural documents related to the novel's publication, and a selection of critical essays.
5) Kate Chopin
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English
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A collection of critical essays on Chopin and her works arranged in chronological order of publication.
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English
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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...
15) Kate Chopin
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Twayne's United States authors volume TUSAS 485
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English
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"The author 'provides careful analyses of Chopin's two volumes of published short stories ("Bayou Folks" and "A Night in Arcadie"), the stories of her unpublished short volume, "A Vocation and a Voice," her uncollected short stores, poems, and essays, as well as her two novels, "At Fault" and "The Awakening." A thorough critical study of interest to both general readers and scholars.'" Booklist.
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