The Awakening: And Selected Stories of Kate Chopin, Paperback

``Perhaps it is better to wake up after all, even to suffer, rather than to remain a dupe to illusions all one's life.`` Kate Chopin was enjoying wide popularity as a writer, mainly of short stories, when her second novel, The Awakening , was published to widespread criticism of its immorality. A wake-up call to women all over the country, this landmark novel of early American feminism tells of a Louisiana wife who discovers the strength of her own sexuality and tries to wrench