no fireworks here…

 

 

Book review:

The Awakening

   and Selected Stories of Kate Chopin

 

by Kate Chopin (1850-1904)

Louisiana author

New York: Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, 2004

296 pages

 

There are no fireworks and little spark in Kate Chopin’s prose.

Her characters and her plots seem quotidian at best, and more like hum-drum.

In her time she was a ground-breaking writer of feminist themes, but her stories simply are not thrilling in the 21st century.

As I tried to read The Awakening, I realized that I was trying to imagine how it would have felt doing the same thing 125 years ago. I failed.

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The Puritans had a dark side…

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

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