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A worldwide phenomenon and the most important French novelist since Camus

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The Awakening: Introduction by Elaine Showalter cookbook made all the more appealingAuthor Contributor(s): Chopin, Kate; Showalter, Elaine Publisher: Everyman's Library Date: 11 3 1992 Binding: Hardcover Condition: NEW Kate Chopin's riveting, daring story of one woman's search for personal freedom was so far ahead of its time that its publication in 1899 aroused a storm of controversy violent enough to end its author's career. With an effortless, sure handed artistry, Chopin tells the story of Edna Pontellier, a young mother and