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The Awakening, originally titled A Solitary Soul, is a novel by Kate Chopin, first published in 1899. Set in New Orleans and on the Louisiana Gulf coast at the end of the 19th century, the plot centers on Edna Pontellier and her struggle to reconcile her increasingly unorthodox views on femininity and motherhood with the prevailing social attitudes of the turn-of-the-century American South. It is one of the earliest American novels that focuses on...
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"Cecily Cardew and Gwendolen Fairfax are both in love with the same mythical suitor. Jack Worthing has wooed Gwendolen as Earnest, while Algernon has also posed as Earnest to win the heart of Jack's ward, Cecily. When all four arrive at Jack's country home on the same weekend--the "rivals" to fight for Earnest's undivided attention and the "Earnests" to claim their beloveds--pandemonium breaks loose"--Page 4 of cover
5) Three plays
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Avon Books
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©1984
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MUSEUM unfolds at an avant-garde art show frequented by a rogue's gallery of museum visitors. THE ART OF DINING, a gastronomic farce about affluent American society, is a spicy compote of social satire. PAINTING CHURCHES tells of a woman artist's coming of age amid the flowering and decay of a Boston blueblood family.
8) Five plays
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A Bard book volume 40006
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Avon Books
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1978
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English
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