{"product_id":"2940169750140","title":"The Awakening","description":"\u003cp\u003eFirst published in 1899, this revolutionary novel so disturbed critics and the public that it was banished for decades afterward. Now widely read and admired, \u003cem\u003eThe Awakening\u003c\/em\u003e has been hailed as an early vision of woman¿s emancipation. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRooted in the romantic tradition of Melville and Dickinson, it is the story of twenty-eight-year-old Edna Pontellier, a surprisingly modern woman trapped in a dehumanizing marriage and in search of self-discovery. Turning away from convention and society toward her primal instincts for passion and freedom, Edna abandons her family to realize herself as an individual. But her quest leads to her destruction by a society that grants no place for those unfulfilled by marriage and motherhood.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSet in New Orleans and the Southern Louisiana coast, \u003cem\u003eThe Awakening\u003c\/em\u003e is one of the most important novels written by an American woman in the nineteenth century and a landmark work of early feminism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA Blackstone Audio production.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Blackstone Audio, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47114676994288,"sku":"2940169750140","price":13.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940169750140_p0.jpg?v=1769899364","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940169750140","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}