Klee, Bruno M. (bearbeitet)Antiquariat.de
Chopin, KateBiblio.com
The Awakening.
1899réf. 152246Chicago & New York: Herbert S. Stone & Company 1899. First edition of this landmark work. Octavo original green cloth stamped in dark green and red. First editions are rare. Set in New Orleans and on the Louisiana Gulf coast at the end of the 19th century the plot centers on 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. 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. The novel's blend of realistic narrative incisive social commentary and psychological complexity makes The Awakening a precursor of American modernist literature; it prefigures the works of American novelists such as William Faulkner and Ernest Hemingway and echoes the works of contemporaries such as Edith Wharton and Henry James. It can also be considered among the first Southern works in a tradition that would culminate with the modern works of Faulkner Flannery O'Connor Eudora Welty Katherine Anne Porter and Tennessee Williams. In good condition with soiling and rebacked stamp of "Wilson's Library" to the title and first page. Herbert S. Stone & Company hardcover
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