The Awakening: (Mockingbird Classics Deluxe Edition)

"The voice of the sea speaks to the soul."
--- Kate Chopin, The Awakening The Awakening
Kate CHOPIN (1850 - 1904) The Awakening, originally titled A Solitary Soul, is a novel by Kate Chopin, first published in 1899. 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 to reconcile her increasingly unorthodox views on femininity and motherhood with the prevailing social attitudes of the turn-of-the-century Ame...