The Awakening
by Kate Chopin
Chopin's novel about a woman waking up to her own life in 1890s Louisiana. Scandalous at the time, essential now. Short chapters make it fast.
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A green and yellow parrot, which hung in a cage outside the door, kept repeating over and over: "Allez vous-en! Allez vous-en! Sapristi! That's all right!"Kate Chopin, The AwakeningRead 10 hand-picked quotes from The Awakening, with meaning →
How Classicly reads The Awakening
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Why we picked it
A short, then-scandalous novel about a woman's interior awakening on the Gulf Coast in the 1890s. Brief chapters, fast pace.
Suitable for 16+. Level B2, which means readers comfortable with upper-intermediate English will follow it without a dictionary; lower-intermediate readers can read with light support.
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