The Awakening And Selected Stories (edit title)

Shelfari edited the description of The Awakening And Selected Stories Saturday, August 1 2009.

• Kate Chopin was one of the most individual and adventurous of nineteenth-century American writers, whose fiction explored new and often starting territory. When her most famous story, "The Awakening", was first published in 1899, it stunned readers with its frank portrayal of the inner word of Edna Pontellier, and its daring criticisms of the limits of marriage and motherhood. From her first stories, Chopin was interested in independent characters who challenged convention.

Shelfari edited the contributors of The Awakening And Selected Stories Thursday, July 23 2009.

• Added a contributor: Kate Chopin: (Primary Author)
• Added a contributor: Sandra M. Gilbert: (Primary None)

Shelfari edited the first sentence of The Awakening And Selected Stories Thursday, July 16 2009.

• A green and yellow parrot, which hung in a cage outside the door, kept repeating over and over: "Allez vous-en! Allez vous-en! Sapristi! That's all right!"