She is well looked after, if somewhat disregarded. Léonce is not cruel to his wife by any means.
Edna stays at Great Isle with the boys, while her husband Léonce goes to work in the city. They are young, attractive and wealthy and are ‘summering’ at Great Isle, a holiday resort near to New Orleans. Here is a couple who live a seemingly happy life on the surface. Where marriage and romantic relationships continue to exist, this book will not date. The Awakening is a period work certainly, but what strikes the most is the timelessness of the story itself.
A path which brings her the freedom and stimulation she so craves, but a path that will lead to unforeseen and devestating consequences.
The Awakening tells the story of Edna Pontellier, a twenty-eight-year-old wife and mother of two boys who comes to reject the conventions of her married life and sets herself on a path of self-discovery. This short, but penetrating novel was rediscovered in the 1960s, and is now thought of as a landmark of early feminism. Algeria, Angola, Argentina, Australia, Bahrain, Benin, Bermuda, Bolivia, Botswana, Brazil, Brunei Darussalam, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Canada, Cape Verde Islands, Central African Republic, Chad, Chile, Colombia, Comoros, Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast), Democratic Republic of the Congo, Djibouti, Ecuador, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas), Gabon Republic, Gambia, Germany, Ghana, Greenland, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Iraq, Israel, Japan, Jordan, Kenya, Kuwait, Laos, Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia, Macau, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mayotte, Mexico, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, New Zealand, Niger, Nigeria, Oman, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Puerto Rico, Qatar, Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, Saint Helena, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Somalia, South Africa, Suriname, Swaziland, Taiwan, Tanzania, Thailand, Togo, Tunisia, Turkey, Uganda, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, Vietnam, Virgin Islands (U.S.With its forthright exploration of female sexual desire, depression and female emancipation, The Awakening, first published in 1899, was such a shock to readers of the time that it was shunned and then forgotten for decades.
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