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A carefully curated selection of stories from "one of the foremothers of 20th-century literature and feminist thought" (The New York Times), known for her deep emotional acuity and nuanced depictions of womenToday, Kate Chopin is widely considered a pioneering and influential feminist voice in American letters. Her fiction, though not embraced in her day, has endured into our own, and grapples with fundamental questions of marriage, sexuality,...

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This book has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted, retyped and designed. These books are not made of scanned copies and hence the text is clear and readable.

Now recognised as a pioneering exploration of gender freedom, from an era when female agency was rare and shocking.Written in the late Victorian era The Awakening features a young woman who flings aside the norms of society and rejects her role as wife and mother. She abandons her family for a hedonistic and contrarian lifestyle before eventually committing suicide. The novel deals with the issues of interracial marriage and contains passages ...

It is one of the earliest American novels that focuses on women''s issues.

A young woman tired of marriage resolves to leave her husband, making her way to New Orleans alone. Finished with work for the day, Telèsphore decides to take the train into town. A woman content with spinsterhood unexpectedly finds herself responsible for her neighbor’s four young children. A Night in Acadie is a collection of short stories by Kate Chopin.

After the Civil War, Therese Lafirme, a widow, runs a plantation in rural Louisiana. When a divorced businessman named David Hosmer purchases timber rights to her land in order to support his newly built sawmill, Lafirme struggles to balance her growing affections with her hard-earned sense of independence and deep moral convictions. At Fault is the debut novel of Kate Chopin.

When The Awakening was first published in 1899, critical outcry proved so vociferous that the novel was banned for decades. Now praised as a classic of early feminist literature, Kate Chopin's final work rejects conventional female roles and celebrates a woman's journey towards self-awareness. As the heroine, Edna Pontellier, awakens to her own desires, she begins to question her ideas about marriage, motherhood, society, art, and the nature o...

The Awakening" is the story of Edna Pontellier, an attractive young wife and the mother of two sons living in the Creole south in the late 19th century. Edna feels herself trapped in a marriage where she is unable to express her passionate sensuality and as a result explores a spiritual and sexual awakening through an affair with a younger man during one summer while her husband is away. Liberated by this experience she sends her children away...

La Folle has remained on one side of the bayou for her whole life. When a terrible accident occurs, however, she is forced to relive the traumas of her childhood. A young woman faces terrible prejudice when she gives birth to a racially ambiguous child. Bayou Folk is a collection of short stories by Kate Chopin.

When Kate Chopin's classic was first published in 1899, charges of sordidness and immorality seemed to consign it into obscurity and irreparably damage its author's reputation. But a century after her death, The Awakening is widely regarded as Kate Chopin's great achievement and a celebrated work of early feminist literature. Through careful, subtle changes of style, Chopin shows the transformation of Edna Pontellier, a young wife and mother, ...

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 resort owner, whom she meets on vacation. The power of sensuality, the delusion of ecstatic love, and the solitude that accompanies the trappings of middle- and upper-class life are the themes of this now-classic novel...

The Awakening, Beyond the Bayou, Ma'ame Pelagie, Desiree's Baby, A Respectable Woman, The Kiss, A Pair of Silk Stockings, The Locket, A Reflection.

The Awakening follows Edna Pontellier, a resident of coastal Grand Isle of Louisiana, in her late twenties, who has a quintessential set-up for a content housewife.

Amerikali yazar Kate Chopinin dokuz kisa öyküsünden olusan bu kitaptaki hikayelerin neredeyse tamami, Kanadanin Acadia bugünkü Nova Scotia kirsalinda ya da Acadia halklarinin göc ettigi Louisianada gecer ve Fransizca konusan Acadia, Creole ve Cajun halklarinin yasantisina odaklanir.Chopinin bu kisa öykülerindeki kadin karakterler iclerindeki tutkuyu kesfetme, kabullenme ve duygularina teslim olma yetenekleriyle yazarin kült romani Uyanisin bas...

Kate 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 more daringly than any before her about the consequences for middle-class women of late-nineteenth-century society's unleashing of female desire. Celebrated today as a key text in American literature, it scandali...

The Awakening by Kate Chopin, with its psychologically acute depiction of a woman's life, realistic portrayal of Victorian society in the American South, and keen observation of prescribed gender roles, was very much ahead of its time. The novel retains its power and groundbreaking relevance today.

After the Civil War, Therese Lafirme, a widow, runs a plantation in rural Louisiana. When a divorced businessman named David Hosmer purchases timber rights to her land in order to support his newly built sawmill, Lafirme struggles to balance her growing affections with her hard-earned sense of independence and deep moral convictions. At Fault is the debut novel of Kate Chopin.