Contested
The Awakening and Selected Short Stories
Read it in the Library After Dark Or read it as plain textA wife and mother wakes, slowly and then all at once, to the fact that the life assigned to her does not fit her, and the ending refuses every comfortable resolution available. It scandalised its era badly enough to nearly vanish from print entirely. The sea in it is not just scenery; by the last page it is practically a character with an opinion.
The librarian
- Reading time
- About 4 hr 20 min
- Where to find it
- On the Contested shelves
- Edition
- Project Gutenberg, eBook #160. In the public domain in the United States.