The Short Fiction of Kate Chopin
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This volume collects the short stories that made Chopin one of the sharpest observers of Louisiana life, drawing on the Creole and Cajun communities she came to know after marrying into them. Bayou plantations, Natchitoches parish, and New Orleans supply the settings, but her real subject is people under pressure: women testing the limits set for them, marriages strained by secrets, questions of race and belonging that her contemporaries preferred to avoid. Stories like "Desiree's Baby" and "The Story of an Hour" turn on a single reversal delivered in a few pages, quietly and without mercy. Long overshadowed by her novel The Awakening, this short work shows her full range across the 1890s.
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Book facts
- Author
- Kate Chopin
- Reading time
- About 10 hours
- Pages
- 344
- Language
- English
- Genre
- American Classics
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- PDF, EPUB, Read online