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Kate Chopin: Complete Novels and Stories (LOA #136) : At Fault / Bayou Folk / a Night in Acadie / the Awakening / Uncollected Stories by Kate Chopin (2002, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherLibrary of America, T.H.E.
ISBN-101931082219
ISBN-139781931082211
eBay Product ID (ePID)2273099
Product Key Features
Book TitleKate Chopin: Complete Novels and Stories (LOA #136) : At Fault / Bayou Folk / a Night in Acadie / the Awakening / Uncollected Stories
Number of Pages1075 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2002
TopicContemporary Women, General, Literary
GenreFiction, Literary Collections
AuthorKate Chopin
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.3 in
Item Weight24.6 Oz
Item Length8.3 in
Item Width5.3 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2002-019450
Reviews"Chopin is not, and never has been, a writer who is easily summed up. Here we get everything--the complete stories and the novels--in one tidy, well-presented package... Chopin's richness is best swallowed in great quantities, and this new edition makes that possible." -- Buffalo News
Grade FromTwelfth Grade
SynopsisFrom 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 slavery and war. Her stories of fiercely independent women challenged contemporary mores as much by their sensuousness as their politics, and today seem decades ahead of their time. Now, The Library of America collects all of Chopin's novels and stories as never before in one authoritative volume. The explosive novel At Fault (1890) centers on a love triangle between a strong-willed young widow, a stiff St. Louis businessman, and the man's alcoholic wife. In the two story collections Bayou Folk (1894) and A Night in Acadie (1897), Chopin transforms the popular local color sketch into taut, perfectly calibrated tales that portray Louisiana bayou cultures with sympathetic insight and an eye to the unresolved conflicts of a South reeling from the Civil War. In The Awakening (1899), the novel that scandalized many of her contemporaries and effectively ended her public career as a writer, Chopin tells the story of Edna Pontellier, a restless, unsatisfied woman who embarks on a quixotic search for fulfillment. Rendered with masterful precision, detachment, and a suggestive ambiguity that defies easy judgments about Edna's actions, The Awakening is the novel that restored Chopin to literary prominence after its rediscovery by critics in the 1960s and 1970s. The volume also includes all the stories not collected by Chopin, including those meant for A Vocation and a Voice , a projected volume that her publisher canceled in 1900; stories that Chopin never tried to publish, such as the erotically daring "The Storm"; and "Ti Fr re," "A Horse Story," and "Alexandre's Wonderful Experience," three stories which were found in 1992 in a long-lost cache of Chopin's papers. LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation's literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America's best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.
LC Classification NumberPS1294.C63A15 2002
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- 17 Dec, 2024
Wonderful writer.
Kate Chopin is an excellent writer. My feeling is she was born at least 75 years too soon as some of her writing were fit for the modern era and not for the time she wrote them in. I was introduced to her in college. Her works should be read in high school English.Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
