The Awakening
Chopin
1899
A woman's interior life, taken seriously.
The Awakening
Kate Chopin · 1899
Chopin gave Edna Pontellier a self worth wanting on its own terms — and the novel was scandalous enough on publication in 1899 to end her career. Rediscovered by feminist critics in the 1970s, it reads now as one of the first American novels to take a woman's inner life as seriously as her marriage.
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Contents
Chapters
Chopin left the novel's 39 chapters unnumbered and untitled — one continuous unfolding of Edna's summer at Grand Isle and the year that follows.
- 1Chapter 1~5 min
- 2Chapter 2~3 min
- 3Chapter 3~5 min
- 4Chapter 4~5 min
- 5Chapter 5~5 min
- 6Chapter 6~1 min
- 7Chapter 7~12 min
- 8Chapter 8~6 min
- 9Chapter 9~8 min
- 10Chapter 10~8 min
- 11Chapter 11~3 min
- 12Chapter 12~6 min
- 13Chapter 13~8 min
- 14Chapter 14~3 min
- 15Chapter 15~10 min
- 16Chapter 16~8 min
- 17Chapter 17~7 min
- 18Chapter 18~7 min
- 19Chapter 19~3 min
- 20Chapter 20~7 min
- 21Chapter 21~6 min
- 22Chapter 22~5 min
- 23Chapter 23~8 min
- 24Chapter 24~5 min
- 25Chapter 25~9 min
- 26Chapter 26~9 min
- 27Chapter 27~2 min
- 28Chapter 28~1 min
- 29Chapter 29~4 min
- 30Chapter 30~10 min
- 31Chapter 31~3 min
- 32Chapter 32~4 min
- 33Chapter 33~10 min
- 34Chapter 34~5 min
- 35Chapter 35~3 min
- 36Chapter 36~8 min
- 37Chapter 37~3 min
- 38Chapter 38~4 min
- 39Chapter 39~7 min