Bayou Folk and a Night in Acadie
$32.10
- Paperback
400 pages
- Release Date
1 March 1999
Summary
In the decade prior to the publication of her landmark novel, THE AWAKENING (1899), Kate Chopin wrote about ninety short stories, a selection of which appeared in BAYOU FOLK (1894) and A NIGHT IN ACADIE (1897). Chopin was deeply influenced by the work of the French and American realists, and her portraits of the inhabitants of nineteenth-century New Orleans and Natchitoches Parish offer one of the most compassionate views of life in American realistic fiction. With a gentle and knowing gaze, …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780140436815 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0140436812 |
| Author: | Kate Chopin |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 400 |
| Release Date: | 1 March 1999 |
| Weight: | 272g |
| Dimensions: | 19mm x 129mm x 197mm |
| Series: | Penguin Classics |
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About The Author
Kate Chopin
Kate Chopin was born in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1851. She began writing shortly after her husband’s death and, from 1889 until her own death, her stories and other miscellaneous writings appeared in “Vogue, Youth’s Companion, Atlantic Monthly, Century, Saturday Evening Post,” and other publications. In addition to “The Awakening,” Mrs. Chopin published another novel, “At Fault,” and two collections of short stories and sketches, “Bayou Folk” and “A Night at Acadie.” The publication of “The Awakening” in 1899 occasioned shocked and angry response from reviewers all over the country.
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