Download or read book The Awakening written by Kate Chopin and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2008-08-14 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Edna Pontellier becomes enamored with Robert LeBrun while on vacation, the wife and mother realizes the full force of her desire for love and freedom, in a text that includes thirty-two additional short stories by the author.