The Awakening
She wanted to swim far out, where no woman had swum before.
Condemned as "sordid" and "immoral" on its publication in 1899, this story of a woman trapped in her marriage effectively ended Chopin's career but was revived as a proto-feminist classic in the 1970s. What Newsweek calls Chopin's "prophetic psychology" ensures its timeliness today.
The Art of The Novella Series
Too short to be a novel, too long to be a short story, the novella is generally unrecognized by academics and publishers. Nonetheless, it is a form beloved and practiced by literature's greatest writers. In the Art Of The Novella series, Melville House celebrates this renegade art form and its practitioners with titles that are, in many instances,…
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August 31, 2010Kate Chopin lived in Louisiana during her marriage and began to write after her husband's death. In addition to The Awakening, she wrote a novel, At Fault, and more than 100 short stories.
The Awakening
Kate Chopin
At the Bay
Katherine Mansfield
Billy Budd, Sailor
Herman Melville
The Abbess of Castro
Stendhal
Oroonoko
Aphra Behn
The Nose
Nikolai Gogol
The Invisible Man
H. G. Wells
Carmen
Prosper Merimee
The Haunted Bookshop
Christopher Morley
The Poor Clare
Elizabeth Gaskell
The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket
Edgar Allan Poe
The Diamond as Big as the Ritz
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Stempenyu: A Jewish Romance
Sholom Aleichem, Hannah Berman
The Dialogue of the Dogs
Miguel de Cervantes
My Life
Anton Chekhov