Kate Chopin

• 1899
• / Fantasy
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Now recognised as a pioneering exploration of gender freedom, from an era when female agency was rare and shocking.Written in the late Victorian era, The Awakening features a young woman who flings aside the norms of society and rejects her role as w...

• Dec-1969
• / General Fiction
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In 1969, Per Seyersted gave the world the first collected works of Kate Chopin. Seyersted's presentation of Chopin's writings and biographical and bibliographical information led to the rediscovery and celebration of this turn-of-the-century author. ...

• Jan-1991
• / General Fiction
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Published for the first time as Chopin intended, this is a collection of her most innovative stories, including "The Story of an Hour," "An Egyptian Cigarette," and "The Kiss."For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of cla...

• Aug-1996
• / General Fiction
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• Oct-1996
• / General Fiction
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In "A Pair of Silk Stockings", Mrs. Sommers, a once wealthy woman who has fallen on hard times comes into possession of a small fortune of $15. Planning to spend the money on clothing for her children, she becomes sidetracked at a shop counte...

• Mar-2002
• / General Fiction
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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 convictio...

• Jul-2002
• / General Fiction
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The author who today is probably best known for her novel The Awakening initially established her literary reputation with short stories about life in rural Louisiana during the late nineteenth century.The stories collected in Bayou Folk present rema...

• Oct-2002
• / Literary
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From ruined Louisiana plantations to bustling, cosmopolitan New Orleans, Kate Chopin wrote with unflinching honesty about propriety and its strictures, the illusions of love and the realities of marriage, and the persistence of a past scarred by slav...

• Jun-2005
• / General Fiction
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Before she wrote The Awakening -- a powerful novel that has illuminated generations of readers with its strikingly honest and controversial themes of female sexuality and miscegenation--Kate Chopin penned many well-received short stories of Creole an...

• Apr-2014
• / General Fiction
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In “Désirée’s Baby”, the adopted daughter of a wealthy prewar French Creole couple is courted by the son of another wealthy, respected French Creole family. After they marry, their child is born with dark skin and believed to have African anc...

• Apr-2014
• / General Fiction
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One night in autumn a few men were gathered about a fire on the slope of a hill. They belonged to a small detachment of Confederate forces and were awaiting orders to march. Their gray uniforms were worn beyond the point of shabbiness. One of the men...

• Apr-2014
• / General Fiction
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In A Respectable Woman, Mrs. Baroda, the wife of a wealthy sugar plantation owner plays hostess to Mr. Gouvernail, a friend of her husband's. The reserved Mr. Gouvernail is a puzzle to Mrs. Baroda who is nonetheless intrigued by the man's ret...

• Apr-2015
• / General Fiction
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In Kate Chopin's classic tale The Story of an Hour, Louise Mallard receives a terrible shock after hearing of the death of her husband, Brently in a railroad disaster. Mrs. Mallard suffers from heart problems; therefore, her sister informs her of the...

• Jul-2015
• / General Fiction
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This collection has all of the following works: A Dresden Lady in Dixie, A Matter of Prejudice, A Night in Acadie, A Pair of Silk Stockings, A Respectable Woman, A Rude Awakening, A Very Fine Fiddle, A Wizard from Gettysburg, At Cheniere Caminada, At...

• Oct-2015
• / Romance
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Kate Chopin (born Katherine O'Flaherty) (1850-1904) was an American author of short stories and novels, mostly of a Louisiana Creole background. She is now considered to have been a forerunner of feminist authors of the 20th century. From 1889 to 190...

• Mar-2017
• / General Fiction
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In "Beyond the Bayou", La Folle, an ex-slave, lives on an island cut off from the her old home and is afraid to venture back onto the bayou. When a small drought dries up the shallow waters between her home and the bayou, she spends some time...

• Mar-2017
• / General Fiction
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In “Ma’ame Pelagie”, two women inhabit the ruins of their coastal Louisiana plantation, hoarding their pennies so they can restore it to its pre-Civil war glory. Ma’am Pelagie and her younger sister, Pauline sip coffee on the veranda and shar...

• Mar-2017
• / General Fiction
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Kate Chopin’s “A Reflection” is a reflection on the fortunes of life. It is a meditation on how some people succeed by harnessing their energy effectively while others get left behind....

• Mar-2018
• / General Fiction
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Kate Chopin (1850-1904) was an American author who was considered a major influence on some of the feminist authors of the 20th century.Chopins most famous work is The Awakening, a novel that is seen as a landmark work of early feminism.This version ...

• / General Fiction
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Kate Chopin (born Katherine O'Flaherty) (1850-1904) was an American author of short stories and novels, mostly of a Louisiana Creole background. She is now considered to have been a forerunner of feminist authors of the 20th century. From 1889 to 190...

• / General Fiction
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Kate Chopin (born Katherine O'Flaherty) (1850-1904) was an American author of short stories and novels, mostly of a Louisiana Creole background. She is now considered to have been a forerunner of feminist authors of the 20th century. From 1889 to 190...

• / Literary
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"He was a robust young fellow with good, strong features and a somewhat determined expression �" despite his vacillations in the choice of a wife. He was dressed rather carefully in navy-blue "store-clothes" that fitted well because anything woul...