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  • Published: 15 July 2025
  • ISBN: 9780241746868
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 112
  • RRP: $12.99

The Story of an Hour




90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books

There was something coming to her and she was waiting for it, fearfully. What was it? She did not know; it was too subtle and elusive to name

Nuns, maidens, adventurers – with electricity, The Story of an Hour collects stories of female freedom, as Kate Chopin asks the question: what will emancipation feel like for her, looking at the horizon and the future, to the frontier?

  • Published: 15 July 2025
  • ISBN: 9780241746868
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 112
  • RRP: $12.99

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