Sign up to our emails and be the first to know about new releases, special offers and more.
Become a Readings Member to make your shopping experience even easier. Sign in or sign up for free!
Hello Readings Member! Go to the member centre to view your orders, change your details, or view your lists, or sign out.
Australian Book Retailer of the Year 2021
Kate Chopin
A woman who dares to defy expectations of society in pursuit of her desire. But a century after her death, it is regarded as the author’s achievement. This book shows…
In stock at 2 shops, ships in 3-4 daysIn stock at 2 shops
Kate Chopin’s classic, an American Anna Karenina, joins Canongate’s Canons series.
This candid portrayal of a woman who refuses to accept her allotted role as wife and mother caused an outcry when it was published in 1899. It is the story…
In stock at 6 shops, ships in 3-4 daysIn stock at 6 shops
Contains Chopin’s watershed novel and selected stories. This book has been edited by Nina Baym and includes an introduction by Kaye Gibbons.
To all outside appearances, Edna Pontellier is a respectable married woman living in New Orleans with her fond, indulgent husband and her two young sons. Beneath Edna's smooth, graceful face…
Order online and we’ll ship when availablePre-order now
O'Neill, O'Neill Schmitt
Authors Rory O'Neill Schmitt and Rosary O'Neill share the NOLA life of Kate Chopin, the first great American woman novelist.
In this epic story, Chopin becomes a Phoenix rising amidst…
Available to order, ships in approx 2 weeksAvailable to order
Peggy Skaggs
Offers a critical introduction to the life and work of the American novelist.
Available to order, ships in approx 4 weeksAvailable to order
Harold Bloom
Initially known for her short stories and articles, Kate Chopin was considered to be little more than a regional writer. Published in 1899, her second novel, The Awakening, received little…
Emily Toth
This is the true, unvarnished life story of the girl who grew up to write The Awakening, a masterpiece published 100 years ago. With its portrayal of a woman whose…
Available to order, ships in 7-14 daysAvailable to order
Heather Ostman
This book explores the Catholic aesthetic and mystical dimensions in Kate
Chopin’s fiction within the context of an evolving American Catholicism in the
late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Through…
Presents The Awakening and seventeen short stories, including A Shameful Affair, At the ‘Cadian Ball, and Madame Celestin’s Divorce .
These Pocket Books Enriched Classics editions feature concise Introductions that give important background information; a chronology of the author’s life and career; a timeline of significant events that provide the…
Melinda Banyai
N. Walker
Kate Chopin: A Literary Life sets the author in the context of nineteenth-century American women writers to show how standards of literary propriety affected the career of a major American…
Kate Chopin,Edmund Wilson
Containing twenty poems, ninety-six stories, two novels, and thirteen essays, in short, everything Kate Chopin wrote except several additional poems and three unfinished children’s stories, as well as Per Seyersted’s…
Although little known during her lifetime, Kate Chopin is now recognised as a unique voice in American literature, with her seminal novel, The Awakening (1899), now widely read and studied…
Presents an edition of the primarily unpublished papers of author Kate Chopin, including notebooks and diaries, letters, poems, manuscript account books, and miscellaneous documents, statements, music, and illustrations. This book…
Per Seyersted
Kate Chopin was a nationally acclaimed short story artist of the local colour school when she in 1899 shocked the American reading public with The Awakening. This volume provides an…
Chopin
11 stories by Kate Chopin: The Awakening; Beyond the Bayou; Ma'ame Pelagie; Desiree’s Baby; A Respectable Woman; The Kiss A Pair of Silk Stockings; The Locket; A Reflection; At the…
Kate O'Flaherty Chopin was a 19th century author of short stories and novels with a Louisiana Creole setting. She is most noted for two short story collections, Bayou Folk (1894)…
The Awakening, originally titled A Solitary Soul, is set in New Orleans and on the Louisiana Gulf coast at the end of the 19th century. The plot centers on Edna…
"First published in 1899."--Title page verso.
The Awakening, originally titled A Solitary Soul, is a novel by Kate Chopin, first published in 1899. Set in New Orleans and on the Louisiana Gulf coast at the end…
The Awakening follows Edna Pontellier, a resident of coastal Grand Isle of Louisiana, in her late twenties, who has a quintessential set-up for a content housewife.
Available to order, ships in 5-9 daysAvailable to order
This is a portrayal of one woman’s fight for independence from the stultifying norms of wifedom and motherhood.
The Awakening shocked turn-of-the-century readers with its forthright treatment of sex and suicide. Departing from literary convention, Kate Chopin failed to condemn her heroine's desire for an affair with the…
The heroine of this story, Edna Pontellier, goes through the stages of a compelling but ultimately tragic search for personal freedom. On publication in 1899, this book provided a frank…
Twenty-three short stories show rural life in Louisiana after the Civil War. Former slaves, people of color, women, poor whites, and wealthy whites chafe against social restrictions. Includes translations from…
First published in 1899, this controversial novel of a New Orleans wife’s search for love outside a stifling marriage shocked readers. Today, it remains a first-rate narrative with superb characterization…
>First published in 1899, this compelling novel shocked readers with its honest treatment of female marital infidelity
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
This work is in the "public…
Kate Chopin (1851-1904) was the first American woman to deal with women’s roles as wives and mothers. This book, her most famous novel, concerns a woman dissatisfied with her indifferent…
Although Kate Chopin lived in St. Louis, Missouri, for most of her life, the few years that she spent in Louisiana profoundly influenced her writing career, which lasted from about…
