The AwakeningShe wanted to swim far out, where no woman had swum before. Condemned as "sordid" and "immoral" on its publication in 1899, this story of a woman trapped in her marriage effectively ended Chopin's career but was revived as a proto-feminist classic in the 1970s. What Newsweek calls Chopin's "prophetic psychology" ensures its timeliness today. The Art of The Novella Series Too short to be a novel, too long to be a short story, the novella is generally unrecognized by academics and publishers. Nonetheless, it is a form beloved and practiced by literature's greatest writers. In the Art Of The Novella series, Melville House celebrates this renegade art form and its practitioners with titles that are, in many instances, presented in book form for the first time. |
Contents
Section 1 | 13 |
Section 2 | 17 |
Section 3 | 20 |
Section 4 | 29 |
Section 5 | 34 |
Section 6 | 36 |
Section 7 | 45 |
Section 8 | 51 |
Section 21 | 119 |
Section 22 | 124 |
Section 23 | 129 |
Section 24 | 135 |
Section 25 | 139 |
Section 26 | 147 |
Section 27 | 154 |
Section 28 | 157 |
Section 9 | 58 |
Section 10 | 65 |
Section 11 | 68 |
Section 12 | 73 |
Section 13 | 74 |
Section 14 | 80 |
Section 15 | 83 |
Section 16 | 91 |
Section 17 | 98 |
Section 18 | 104 |
Section 19 | 110 |
Section 20 | 113 |
Section 29 | 158 |
Section 30 | 162 |
Section 31 | 170 |
Section 32 | 173 |
Section 33 | 178 |
Section 34 | 187 |
Section 35 | 192 |
Section 36 | 195 |
Section 37 | 202 |
Section 38 | 205 |
Section 39 | 209 |
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