The Awakening

by Kate Chopin

$11,000 · Offered by Manhattan Rare Books

First edition

The years that are gone seem like dreams - if one might go on sleeping and dreaming - but to wake up and find -oh! well! perhaps it is better to wake up after all, even to suffer, rather than to remain a dupe to illusions all one's life... RARE FIRST EDITION OF CHOPIN'S GROUNDBREAKING NOVEL; A FOUNDATIONAL FEMINIST WORK. No other American book was so maligned, neglected for so long, and then embraced so quickly and with such

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