The Awakening - formato ePub

Cuando se publicó por primera vez en 1899, The Awakening sorprendió a los lectores con su tratamiento honesto de la infidelidad conyugal femenina. Las audiencias acostumbradas a las piedades de la ficción...

La publicación de "El despertar" en 1899 desencadenó una cascada de críticas negativas que mostraban los condicionantes y prejuicios morales de los críticos norteamericanos de fin de siglo. Considerada...

Cuando Edna Pontellier, esposa de un hombre de negocios de Nueva Orleans, se desplaza junto con éste y sus dos hijos a pasar las vacaciones estivales a Grand Isle, en la costa, traba conocimiento con...

La historia de la literatura universal está plagada de ejemplos de mujeres malignas que han manipulado la voluntad de los hombres utilizando como armas su inteligencia y belleza, mostrando la debilidad...

Mujeres que reclaman su derecho a trabajar en un mundo de hombres, valientes guerreras indias, forajidas del Oeste americano, inmigrantes sin pelos en la lengua, heroínas atrapadas en tenebrosos bosques…...

'At Fault', which mirrors Chopin's own life, was written at the beginning of her career and introduces characters and themes that appeared later in her accliamed novel 'The Awakening'. Set in the post-Reconstruction...

The scene of " At Fault " is laid in Louisiana , and the creole dialect used by Thérèse and her friends is much more agreeable than the slang indulged in by the wealthy St . Louis women. The tale has...

A pretty book of tales drawn from life among the Creoles and Acadians of Louisiana. They represent with fidelity and spirit characters and customs unfamiliar to most readers ; they are admirably told,...

In her own time, the works of Kate Chopin (1851–1904) shocked readers and critics with their challenge to contemporary mores. Her stories and novels reveal unsparing truths about the interior lives of...

The Awakening (1899) appears in this collection of short stories. Upon publication of the story Chopin's writing was highly praised, but the public was outraged by the content and only one edition was...

Louisiana, end of 1800: Creole families, French settlers descendants, are melted with the rest of the Anglo-Saxon society in the United States. In that world that she feels tight, the twenty-eight Edna...

Oltre a Una donna Rispettabile, che da il titolo a questa raccolta, pubblicato per la prima volta nel 1894 su Vogue, presentiamo altri quattro racconti anch'essi pubblicati sempre su Vogue tra il 1894...

When first published in 1899, The Awakening shocked readers with its honest treatment of female marital infidelity. Audiences accustomed to the pieties of late Victorian romantic fiction were taken aback...

Edna Pontellier passa as férias com a família nos chalés de praia alugados dos Lebrun, perto de Nova Orleans, onde moram. Os dias escorrem entre chás na varanda, agradáveis caminhadas na praia acompanhada...

The Awakening is a novel by Kate Chopin, first published in 1899. Set in New Orleans and on the Louisiana Gulf coast at the end of the 19th century, the plot centers on Edna Pontellier and her struggle...

Set in New Orleans and on the Louisiana Gulf coast at the end of the 19th century, the plot centers on Edna Pontellier and her struggle between her increasingly unorthodox views on femininity and motherhood...

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