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✦The AwakeningKate Chopin
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Fiction · 1899
The Awakening
A summer on the Louisiana coast changes how Edna Pontellier understands herself and the life she has accepted. Chopin traces a difficult awakening through art, solitude, desire, and the limits of social permission.
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