The Awakening and Selected Short Fict...
Kate Chopin'When it first appeared in 1899, Kate Chopin's "The Awakening was greeted with cries of outrage. The novel's frank portrayal of a woman's emotional, intellectual, and sexual awakening shocked the sensibilities of the time and des...
The Awakening: And Other Stories (Wor...
Kate ChopinKate Chopin was one of the most individual and adventurous of nineteenth-century American writers, whose fiction explored new and often startling territory. When her most famous story, The Awakening, was first published in 1899, it s...
A Night in Acadie (Mint Editions)
Kate ChopinThere was nothing to do on the plantation so Telèsphore, having a few dollars in his pocket, thought he would go down and spend Sunday in the vicinity of Marksville. There was really nothing more to do in the vicinity of Marksv...
A Vocation and a Voice: Stories
Kate ChopinThis collection of short stories includes 'The Story of an Hour' about the author's childhood, 'An Egyptian Cigarette', the story of a drug trip and the title piece about a sweet-voiced soprano who learns about adult life. Kate Chopin...
'At Fault', which mirrors Chopin's own life, was written at the beginning of her career and introduces characters and themes that appeared later in her accliamed novel 'The Awakening'. Set in the post-Reconstruction South against the...
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, ...
Bayou Folk This book is a result of an effort made by us towards making a contribution to the preservation and repair of original classic literature. In an attempt to preserve, improve and recreate the original content, we have worked...
One agreeable afternoon in late autumn two young men stood together on Canal Street, closing a conversation that had evidently begun within the club-house which they had just quitted. "There's big money in it, Offdean," said...
Bayou Folk and A Night in Acadie
Kate ChopinIn 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 y...
Like many of Kate Chopin's other well-received short stories of Creole and Acadian life, these memorable tales are filled with fascinating characters, idiosyncratic customs, and sometimes shocking details. In addition to 'Lilacs,' a h...
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 resor...
The Awakening (Legend Classics)
Kate ChopinPart of the Legend Classicsseries, an American feminist classic “The bird that would soar above the level plain of tradition and prejudice must have strong wings. It is a sad spectacle to see the weaklings bruised, exhausted, f...
The Awakening and Other Stories (Word...
Kate ChopinA collection of transformative stories that emphasize women's roles in society.
The Awakening and Other Stories (Z Li...
Kate ChopinInspired by recent current cultural movements (The Women's March, #MeToo), and the new wave of feminism, these new releases of classic books feature strong female protagonists who must navigate difficult situations involving class and...
The Awakening and Selected Stories (V...
Kate ChopinA feminist literary landmark: the daring story of a woman's search for personal freedom that was so controversial in 1899 that it ended its author's career.With an effortless, sure-handed artistry, Kate Chopin tells the story of E...
The Awakening and Selected Stories (W...
Kate ChopinKate Chopin's absorbing 1899 novel The Awakening tells the story of Edna Pontellier, a married woman in New Orleans who, during a summer holiday, begins to question her conventional life. In this path-breaking novel, Chopin speculates...
The Awakening, and Selected Short Sto...
Kate ChopinThis book "" The Awakening, and Selected Short Stories "" has been considered important throughout the human history. It has been out of print for decades.So that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts i...
The Awakening: With a selection of sh...
Kate ChopinThis book opens with a young wife and mother, vacationing at a resort in the Gulf of Mexico with her husband and children. The resort is run by an elderly Frenchwoman, who manages the place along with her two sons. The young wife and ...