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The Awakening
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One languid summer on Grand Isle, off the Louisiana coast, Edna Pontellier, a young wife and mother from New Orleans, begins to feel something stir within her. Among the Creole holidaymakers, the music of the eccentric pianist Mademoiselle Reisz, the attentions of the charming Robert Lebrun, and her first brave swim out into the moonlit Gulf, Edna awakens to a longing for a life of her own. Back in the city she paints, breaks from convention, and searches for freedom in a world with little room for it. Kate Chopin's luminous, daring 1899 classic of self-discovery.
