Adult Challenged Books

 

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1. The awakening

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Author:
Chopin, Kate, 1850-1904
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3.8 stars
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Green Road Community - Adult Fiction
CHOPIN
Morrisville Community - Adult Fiction
CHOPIN
Description:
Condemned as "sordid" and "immoral" on its publication in 1899, this story of a woman trapped in her marriage effectively ended Chopin's career but was revived as a proto-feminist classic in the 1970s. What Newsweek calls Chopin's "prophetic psychology" ensures its timeliness today.

2. A streetcar named Desire

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Williams, Tennessee, 1911-1983
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5 stars
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Athens Drive Community - Adult Non-Fiction
812 WIL
Athens Drive Community - Adult Non-Fiction
812.54 WILLI
Middlecreek Community - Adult Non-Fiction
812.54 WILLI
Description:
Tennessee Williams' classic drama studies the emotional disintegration of a Southern woman whose last chance for happiness is destroyed by her vindictive brother-in-law.