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 slavery a
In one volume, the two short-story collections that established Kate Chopin as one of America's best-loved realist writers.
For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With
Published for the first time as Chopin intended, this is a classic collection of her most innovative stories, including "The Story of an Hour," "An Egyptian Cigarette," and "The Kiss." Chopin (1850-1904) wrote of marital infidelity and miscegenation in pl
Gathering forty important short stories in a portable and economical format, the second edition includes even more of the fiction instructors want to teach and more of the help student readers need.
This volume offers a survey of American short fiction in 59 tales that combine classic works with 'different, unexpected gems', which invite readers to explore a wealth of important pieces by women and minority writers. Authors include: Amy Tan, Alice Ada
Written with grace, delicate humor and a keen understanding of the female psyche are 9 portraits of black and white inhabitants of Louisiana's bayou and urban areas. Includes "A Night in Acadie," "A Respectable Woman," "The Dream of an Hour," and the titl
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 ma
A short story by Kate Chopin. The story takes place in an unnamed city--a city large enough to have a department store, a fashionable restaurant, a theatre, and a cable car--probably in the early 1890s.
Kate Chopin's extraordinary Naturalist work "The Storm," suppressed in her lifetime, as well as its prequel, At The 'Cadian Ball. The works give us Calixta and her class-approved mate Bobinot, as well as Alcee, the man she truly loved.
