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Washington Irving, Bram Stoker, Thomas Hardy, D.H. Lawrence, Kate Chopin: five different authors, all from different backgrounds, but with one thing in common, the theme of freedom. The common thread that connects these stories is the protagonists’ wish to have the freedom to live their life as they want. In each story, this theme is presented in a different way. Some stories are ironic and will make you laugh. Others will make you feel sorry for the protagonists as they try to fight agai...

This is the first paperback edition to bring out in one volume Kate Chopin's extraordinary novel The Awakening (1899), along with the complete text of her two collections of short stories, Bayou Folk (1894) and A Night in Acadie (1897), and twelve uncollected tales.The Awakening is a strikingly modern, evocative story of self-discovery and female emancipation, set in the sensuous environment of Southern Louisiana, where the young Edna Pontellier reclaims her own individuality, refusing to be def...

HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics.`I would give up the unessential; I would give my money, I would give my life for my children; but I wouldn''t give myself.''Heralded as one of the first instances of feminist literature and rejected at its time of publication by the literary set on grounds of moral distaste, Kate Chopin''s The Awakening caused consternation in 1899.Constrained and confined by the limitations surrounding marriage and motherhood in the ...