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The Awakening by Kate Chopin

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The Awakening
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Publisher: H. S. Stone & company
Number of pages: 303

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The Awakening is a short novel by Kate Chopin, first published in 1899. It so disturbed critics and the public that it was banished for decades afterward. This brief novel is widely considered to be a proto-feminist precursor to American modernism.

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