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Title	:	Complete Novels and Stories
Author	:	Kate Chopin
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 1075 pages
Published	:	September 30th 2002 by Library of America (first published March 22nd 1899)
Categories	:	Fiction. Classics. Short Stories. Literature. American

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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 and war. Her stories of fiercely independent women, culminating in her masterpiece "The Awakening" (1899), 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 story collections "Bayou Folk" (1894) and "A Night in Acadie" (1897), Chopin transforms the local color sketch into taut, perfectly calibrated tales of post-Civil War bayou culture. In "The Awakening," the now-classic novel that scandalized many of her contemporaries and effectively ended her writing career, Chopin tells the story of a restless, unsatisfied woman who embarks on a quixotic search for fulfillment.
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, and three stories that were found in 1992 in a long-lost cache of Chopin's papers.

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Original Title:	Kate Chopin: Complete Novels and Stories: At Fault / Bayou Folk / A Night in Acadie / The Awakening / Uncollected Stories (Library of America)
ISBN:	1931082219 (ISBN13: 9781931082211)
Edition Language:	English

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We didn't actually read this book, but downloaded selected short stories of Kate Chopin for book group. What amazed me was how 'racy' these stories were, considering when they were written. Explorations of prejudice, class, love and lust. Interesting.

This was a re-read for a book club.

The story of a hour.. showed how wemon hade no citizenship in the 1800's .....

I just finished Kate Chopin's "The Awakening". I hesitate to say to much, not wanting to spoil it for anyone. I can say her style of writing is so clear. No superfluous passages to be found. Just a story that will touch you deeply. Considering the position of women in 1900 when this was written it even becomes more poignant. The lack of freedom and the stifling of the true person inside, and the pressures of society to conform. Yet Edna in "The Awakening" does taste some of the freedom she had

Very good Novel and I loved the short stories as well. Kate Chopin is a gifted writer and it is a shame that her book went unnoticed for so long.

I wonder if a woman's search for liberation is a dated theme, but The Awakening is so well written! Like Madame Bovary, Enid Pontellier's unhappiness eventually drives her to suicide. And like Emma Bovary, you understand her completely, thanks to a wonderful writer.Chopin's short short story The Story of an Hour is also great.

I didn't read this edition, but wanted to rate Desiree's Baby (a five).