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Summary: COMPELLING FICTION
Review: A glimps into the crazy world the main character, Edna Pontellier, is spinning through. With traditional early 1900's writing style, Kate Chopin lightly carves details into the inner hidden actions that destroy her character slowly through mindless acts. I just love the stark clarity of the words which lead on to a poignant understanding of why this just has to be one of the best books in the world, one that will never become outdated.
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Summary: I think it was an excelent book.
Review: Kate's life and literary career were an ironic parallel and salute to her most famous and notorious charactor Edna Pontellier.
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Summary: Perfections in Everday Life
Review: After attending a woman's rights seminar, I surprisingly found out that The Awakening, a novel I was forced to read in high school, was the #1 woman's book that fought for woman's rights and freedom. It was such a great surprise that I imediately bought a copy of this book and was in for a great treat. The story of "the fallen woman" was so much more complex that I had ever imagined. How could a lady, with the most perfect envious life, want to find other extra alternative to a "better" life. The Awakening is a truely inspiring and haunting novel about a woman who searches for the perfections of everday things in life.
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Summary: Important for Everyone
Review: I read this book for the first time in high school and then again in college. I have just recently re-read it and it remains for me still a very important piece of literature. It is not simply about a woman who turns her back on what society has forced upon her. It is about the importance for all, men and women, not to lose sight of their own worth and self. Edna is woman and a person already dead when the novel begins. She is reborn before before the end of the novel and the realization that that life, the one she deserves, is not possible given what has already come before, is what dictates her final actions. Life that is Death is only livable until you realize that there is life that is Life. Edna's journey to self-awareness and the consequences she faces for having ignored the situation so long are important to the growth of all human beings.
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Summary: Another Bovary? Eyre? Tess Durberville? Sister Carrie?
Review: The scary story of Edna Pontellier, a high class highly positioned woman in society, who leaves her wealthy husband and two praiseworthy young boys to discover life and awaken from the death of a dull and tiresome life. A chilling account of a woman going into a parallel strait towards the ultimate.
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Summary: FATAL FEMME
Review: THE AWAKENING is a really short novel compared with other famous classics with the likes of WAR AND PEACE or VANITY FAIR. But out of all of those titles and many more, I found THE AWAKENING to be a very highly difficult book to read and grasp it's understanding. I had to read this book twice to figure out the main plot, and in it, there are plenty of subplots, which means I'll most likely have to read THE AWAKENING again to figure out. Though overall, the story of a woman who can relate to Flaubert's MADAME BOVARY and Hardy's TESS DURBERVILLE, is an enjoyable one.
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Summary: WONDERFUL,OUTSTANDING, MAGNIFICENT
Review: I HAVE READ THIS BOOK AND LET ME TELL YOU ITS A WONDER. IT BEGINS IN A POINT THAT YOU WONDER IF ANYTHING WILL HAPPEN TO THE MAIN CHARATER, EDNA, BUT ONCE YOU READ IT YOU REALLY GIVE IT TWO THUMBS UP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Summary: Was it Oscar Wilde who wrote,
Review: "the day a woman gets married is the day she dies"? Apparently so for Edna, Emma (Bovary), and Anna (Karenina), etc. --although it may take some time for them to realize it. Whether a great book or trash; whether male or female; or, whether feminist or not, is there a lesson here? Perhaps to make the best of the lives of those around us? Lets at least give Chopin that.
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Summary: still worthy after all these years
Review: To say that this novel does not provoke thought indicated merely the lack of such possibility in the reader. For a young woman today, the issues raised are just as important as ever. It may no longer have the controvesy attached to it that it once did, but that in no way diminishes its worth.
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Summary: Blue Unicorn Editions
Review: Blue Unicorn Editions publishes the most complete, unabridged, uncensored texts of the world's greatest literary works, in English and/or their original languages.
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