Others on Grand Isle: two lovers, a lady in black, the Farival twins, old Monsieur Farival, Beaudelet.

Mademoiselle Reisz: pianist, guest at the pension on Grand Isle.

Alphonse Ratignolle: pharmacist, husband of Adèle.

Adèle Ratignolle: guest at the pension on Grand Isle.

Mariequita: woman of Spanish descent who lives on Grand Isle.

Victor Lebrun: brother of Robert Lebrun.

Madame Aline Lebrun: owner of a pension on Grand Isle.

A quadroon who cares for Etienne and Raoul.

Etienne and Raoul Pontellier: children of Edna and Léonce.

For publication information about these books, see the section “For students and scholars” near the bottom of this page. Several include background readings, critical comments, bibliographies of scholarly articles and books, Chopin short stories, and other materials.

There are also many paperback editions of the novel available today. Kate Chopin, The Awakening and Selected Stories. Kate Chopin: Complete Novels and Stories. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1969, 2006. The Norton Critical Edition of The Awakening. Edited by Margo Culley. The Historian’s Awakening: Reading Kate Chopin’s Classic Novel as Social and Cultural History.

In print you can find the novel in these publications: If you find an issue with it, would you please contact us? You should be able to read the text easily on a computer, a tablet, or a smartphone. After the last chapter of the novel, you can read about small corrections made in this online text. Stone & Company, 1899) in the Harvard University library. You can read the novel in our online text, which is based on a first edition of the novel (Herbert S.

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