The awakening kate chopin

Page count: 195Excerpt: "But the beginning of things, of a world especially, is necessarily vague, chaotic, and exceedingly disturbing. How few of us ever emerge from such beginning! How many souls perish in its tumult! The voice of the sea is seductive; never ceasing, whispering, clamoring, murmuring, inviting the soul to wander for a spell in abysses of solitude; to lose itself in mazes of inward contemplation. The voice of the sea speaks to the soul. The touch of the sea is sensuous…

The ups and the downs, a lady of extremes {The Awakening by Kate Chopin}

Raul Gutierrez on life and photography.

Kate Chopin's turn-of-the century novel about a woman's emotional and sexual awakening caused outrage and then fell out of print for decades, but it was The Feminine Mystique of its day, argues Barbara Kingsolver

Brief biography of Kate Chopin (1850-1904), American author best known for The Awakening, considered a forerunner of feminist fiction.