The Awakening

Kate Chopin

⏱ 8 minAmerican classic

A respectable wife and mother at a Gulf resort awakens to her own desires and refuses to live for anyone but herself — and finds nowhere to put that freedom but the sea. Chopin's pioneering, scandalous novel.

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