Author:Chopin, Kate

Introduction by Kaye Gibbons
Edited and with notes by Nina Baym
Commentary by Elizabeth Blackwell, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and from "The Picayune's Creole Cook Book"
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"The Awakening "shocked turn-of-the-century readers with its forthright treatment of sex and suicide. Departing from literary convention, Kate Chopin failed to condemn her heroine's desire for an affair with the son of a Louisiana resort owner whom she meets on vacation. The power of sensuality, the delusion of ecstatic love, and the solitude that accompanies the trappings of middle- a...
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At Fault

By: Chopin, Kate

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Publisher: PENGUIN GROUP:

Seller ID: 364154

ISBN: 0142437026

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Thérèse Lafirme, a beautiful and resourceful Creole woman, is widowed at age thirty-two and left alone to run her Louisiana plantation. When Thérèse falls in love with David Hosmer, a divorced businessman, her strong moral and religious convictions make it impossible for her to accept his marriage proposal. Her determined rejection sets the two on a tumultuous path that involves Hosmer's former wife, Fanny. At Fault is both romantic and filled with stark realism-a love story that expands to address the complex problem of balancing personal happiness and social duty-set ...
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Awakening and Other Writings

By: Chopin, Kate

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Publisher: April 2017

Seller ID: 339286

ISBN: 155111349X

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Bayou Folk and a Night in Acadie

By: Chopin, Kate

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Publisher: PENGUIN GROUP: May 2013

Seller ID: 236302

ISBN: 0140436812

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In the decade prior to the publication of her landmark novel, The Awakening (1899), Kate Chopin wrote about ninety short stories. She gathered twenty-three of them in a collection entitled Bayou Folk in 1894, and followed that three years later with a collection of twenty-one more in A Night in Acadie. Together, these nuanced portraits of nineteenth-century inhabitants of New Orleans and Natchitoches Parish exquisitely form a sort of Southern novel of manners.

Chopin was deeply influenced by the work of French and American realists. Many of the stories in Bayou Folk concern young people seek...
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