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  <title><![CDATA[The Awakening: And Other Stories (Oxford World's Classics)]]></title>
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EACH ENRICHED CLASSIC EDITION INCLUDES:

&#8226; A concise introduction that gives readers important background information

&#8226; A chronology of the author's life and work

&#8226; A timeline of significant events that provides the book's historical context

&#8226; An outline of key themes and plot points to help readers form their own interpretations

&#8226; Detailed explanatory notes

&#8226; Critical analysis, including contemporary and modern perspectives on the work

&#8226; Discussion questions to promote lively classroom and book group interaction

&#8226; A list of recommended related books and films to broaden the reader's experience</default_description>
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  <original_title>The Awakening and Selected Stories of Kate Chopin (Enriched Classics)</original_title>
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  <read_at>Mon Jun 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[           <br/><br/> <strong>The Awakening ~ A Review in Two Parts ~ </strong><br/><br/><br/><strong><u>Me, 20 years old, circa early ‘90s</u></strong><br/><br/><br/>Okay, so I just read <em>The Awakening</em>.  What a novella before its time!  You’ve got Edna Pontellier, manipulated into a stodgy marriage, her husband expecting her to...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53818065">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="37481291">
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  <read_at>Thu Nov 13 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a short novel, published in 1899.  It caused such a scandal that it was banned for decades afterward.  The furor over this book was so upsetting to Kate Chopin that she gave up writing altogether.  <br/><br/>The story is about Mrs. Edna Pontellier, a Kentucky girl married to Leonce, a New ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/37481291">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Edna married Mr.Pontellier to escape her father, family, and home. Unfortunately several years and two children later, Edna realizes there is no passion or romance in her marriage or her life. There is only convenience and maybe some fondness for her husband and children. She is bored and dissatisfi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/68254216">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri Aug 28 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Sat Aug 29 14:02:10 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is one of the books I was assigned to read in HS and just plain old never did. This time around, I was sucked in immediately. I thought they story itself was wonderful, although I didn't really like Edna. I had sympathy for her until her husband tried to understand what was going on and all she...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/68755431">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="56394540">
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  <date_added>Sun May 17 13:32:45 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun May 31 17:31:34 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I never read The Awakening for school. This edition comes with selected stories from Chopin’s 1894 short story collection, Bayou Folk, and her 1897 collection, A Night in Acadie, and I think if I were forced to read The Awakening without first reading these, I would miss the point entirely. <br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56394540">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="56313963">
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  <read_at>Mon Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Sat May 16 16:38:53 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Ah.. The Awakening! More commonly known as the bane of my existance from mid-August to October! ... Or, more precisely, a week and a half before the second day of October.<br/><br/>I had to read this as a summer reading assignment for AP English Language and Composition. I love reading, and actual...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56313963">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="45643182">
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  <read_at>Wed Feb 04 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I enjoyed this book. I read it in 3 days, over a weekend, and while I rushed the ending, I was engaged by it. What I found so important about this book is that it was written in a style where I felt I understood the main character's inner process. I enjoyed the limited dialogue with an emphasis on d...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45643182">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_count>The Awakening one time</read_count>
    <body><![CDATA[I did not enjoy this story, and I did not see why Edna's life was so bad. I can understand feeling restricted, but I think Edna was a very selfish woman.  If anything, she should have thought of her children. I am not here to say that women don't have existences outside of their marriages, their chi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43254608">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="6872653">
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  <read_at>Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was the corpus for my undergraduate thesis. Which means I read it countless times, analyzing the words that portray the character relations and their conversations, marking the important parts, underlining important words. Then I lost the book in a fire. Hmm. It was meant to be, I guess. S...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6872653">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="71124626">
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;The Awakening&quot; is a beautiful, tragic novella that was way ahead of its time.  It highlights one woman's struggle against the traditional paradigm of marriage and children.  Fabulous and well worth reading.  Sadly, and not surprisingly, it was not well received when she first published it...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71124626">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="340210">
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    <name><![CDATA[shannon]]></name>
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      <rating>5</rating>
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  <read_at>Thu Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I first read this book in high school, and then again in a women's lit class in college.  Unfortunately, at the time, I didn't get it.  Having been through a divorce, and an &quot;awakening&quot; of sorts (even featuring a handsome rake!), Chopin reads a lot differently.  I'd argue that it should be...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/340210">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="7345645">
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    <body><![CDATA[I like Kate Chopin's writing.  I don't usually like short stories because they usually have a depressing twist at the end of them for some reason.  Chopin's endings in her short stories are usually positive and uplifting.  My favorite was &quot;Beyond the Bayou&quot; (I think that's the title - I do...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7345645">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="43753076">
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  <read_at>Fri Jan 23 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I do like this story because, even though Edna &quot;awakens&quot; to what's wrong with her life, desires something else, and actually goes out and does something about her change, I still got the feeling that she doesn't really know what she wants and lives in that awkward in-between.  <br/><br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43753076">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1998</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Although she wrote over 100 years ago, there is something very modern in her writing.  She wrote about racial issues and women's sexuality at a time when neither was really acknowledged or discussed in literature.  This is a collection I come back to over and over.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Okay, so I'm not going to critique this book like most people, where they complain about the feminism, the poor moral values, etc. etc. I'm certainly no feminist and definitely no adulterer, but I loved this book because of its mood. Maybe it had to do with my state of mind, but I found this book to...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/28449049">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="39932067">
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    <name><![CDATA[Graham]]></name>
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  <read_at>Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[THE AWAKENING; it's kind of like an updated version of MADAME BOVARY, told from a different point of view and in a different location in the world. Nevertheless, the two novels reminded me a lot of each other, and I definitely like Flaubert's book more.<br/><br/>This is an important book and fans ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39932067">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm currently reading this for a university class. Have to finish it by next Tuesday, so will probably enter a blurb about it next week...]]></body>
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