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The Awakening by Kate Chopin. The Modern Library edition of The Awakening has an introduction by Kay Gibbons, who writes: “The Awakening shocked turn-of-the-century readers with its forthright treatment of sex and suicide. Departing from literary convention, Kate Chopin failed to condemn her heroine’s desire for an affair with the son of a Louisiana resort owner, whom she meets on vacation. The power of sensuality, the delusion of ecstatic love, and the solitude that accompanies the trappings of middle- and upper-class life are the themes of this now-classic novel.” – As Kay Gibbons...

Kate Chopin's 1899 novella The Awakening is about the personal, sexual, and artistic awakening of a young wife and mother, Edna Pontellier. While on vacation at Grand Isle, an island in the Gulf of Mexico, Edna befriends the talented pianist Mlle. Reisz and the sympathetic Robert Lebrun, both of whom will influence her startling life choices.

Although originally published in 1899, this book's leading character, Edna Pontellier, could be mistaken for a modern day liberated woman, who abandons her conventional role and makes for herself a controversial and ultimately destructive life.

Kim był Fryderyk Chopin? Co komponował? Jak wyglądało jego życie prywatne? Kogo znał? Kogo kochał? Cykl podcastów Instytutu Chopina opowiada o życiu i twórczości największego polskiego kompozytora. Razem z nim wędrujemy od Żelazowej Woli przez Warszawę i Paryż do milionów słuchaczy na całym świecie. Oto pasjonująca opowieść o człowieku, który jako dziecko zachwycał Warszawę, jako zaledwie dwudziestolatek podbił Paryż. Wkrótce potem stał się legendą, niemal mitycznym bohaterem świata muzyki. Przedstawiamy informacje rzetelnie sprawdzone przez specjalistów. Nie...

Poznajcie Fryderyka Franciszka Chopina, czyli po prostu… Frycka. Frycek to chłopiec z przeszłości - żyje w XIX wieku, kiedy nie istnieją jeszcze telefony, a po ulicach zamiast samochodów jeżdżą dorożki zaprzężone w konie. Ulubione zajęcia chłopca to gra na fortepianie i muzykowanie z trzema ukochanymi siostrami oraz przyjacielem Tytusem. Kiedy Frycek dorośnie, będzie wielkim pianistą i kompozytorem, ale… nie zdradzajmy mu jeszcze tej tajemnicy! nifc.pl sklep.nifc.pl Produkcja Narodowego Instytutu Fryderyka Chopina Reżyseria: Daniel Adamczyk Scenariusze na podstawie ...

Kate Chopin is a widely considered a forerunner to the feminist authors of the twentieth century. Focusing on themes of race andgender, her short stories largely center on life in rural Louisiana. In "A Pair of Silk Stockings," a young woman unexpected finds herself with fifteen dollars.Inspired by her newfound wealth, she ignores her natural impulses and indulgesin a day of luxurious abandon. A wistful rumination on loss and the illusion ofcontrol, "A Pair of Silk Stockings" is Chopin at her absolute best.

In A Pair of Silk Stockings, Mrs. Sommers, a once wealthy woman who has fallen on hard times comes into possession of a small fortune of $15. Planning to spend the money on clothing for her children, she becomes sidetracked at a shop counter, entranced by the smoothness of a pair of silk stockings. She goes on to spend the money on the stockings as well as new boots and gloves for herself.

Kate Chopin’s A Reflection is a reflection on the fortunes of life. It is a meditation on how some people succeed by harnessing their energy effectively while others get left behind.

To be a woman is to be half the world’s population but, in many countries, unfortunately still now and for most of history, women were decidedly second class, normally no more than chattels and the bearers and nurturers of children. As society involved into a complex and overlapping system where education and equality begin to seek space things began to change. In this volume our authors describe and reveal how life actually felt for almost all women before the recent past.