Kate Chopin's fiction was written in the 1890s and read as a scandal; a century later it sits on syllabi as one of the earliest honest accounts of a woman's inner life in American letters.
This collection pairs The Awakening, her novel of a Louisiana summer and a marriage that stops fitting, with short stories including The Story of an Hour and Desiree's Baby. Chopin works in small compass, often finishing a story in a few pages, and her subjects are marriage, race, money and the narrow room allowed to women of her time and place. The Word Cloud Classics edition gathers the novel and the stories in a single volume.
Key threads in the text:
• The complete novel together with a selection of Chopin's best-known short fiction
• Includes The Story of an Hour and Desiree's Baby
• Louisiana settings drawn from the Creole and Cajun communities Chopin knew
• Word Cloud Classics edition collecting novel and stories in one book
A solid choice for literature students, book collectors and readers of nineteenth-century American fiction, available from Boipoka.
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