Short Stories - Kate Chopin
By Kate Chopin
()
About this ebook
This edition contains the short stories:
Beyond the Bayou
Ma’ame Pelagie
Désirée’s Baby
A Respectable Woman
The Kiss
A Pair of Silk Stockings
The Locket
A Reflection
Kate Chopin
Kate Chopin was born in St. Louis, Missouri,In 1851. She began writing shortly after herHusband's death and, from 1889 until her ownDeath, her stories and other miscellaneousWritings appeared in Vogue, Youth's companion,Atlantic Monthly, Century, Saturday EveningPost, 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. The book was taken off the shelves of the St. Louis mercantile library and its author was barred from the fine arts club. Kate Chopin died in 1904.
Read more from Kate Chopin
The Short Stories Of Kate Chopin Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Awakening Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/550 Feminist Masterpieces you have to read before you die (Golden Deer Classics) Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Awakening and Selected Stories of Kate Chopin Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Kate Chopin: The Complete Novels and Stories Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Awakening Thrift Study Edition Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Greatest American Short Stories: 50+ Classics of American Literature Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Pair of Silk Stockings and Other Short Stories Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Collection of Kate Chopin's Short Stories Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings10 Masterpieces You Have to Read Before You Die, Vol. 2: The Gold Bug, Romeo and Juliet, Faust, The Picture of Dorian Gray Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Greatest American Short Stories (Vol. 1) Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsTales of Louisiana Life: Bayou Folk & A Night in Acadie: Tales of Louisiana Life Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Best American Short Stories Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Awakening and Selected Short Fiction (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Classic Feminist Fiction: Herland; Constance Dunlap, Woman Detective; and The Awakening Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Kate Chopin Collection Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsLilacs and Other Stories Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsAmerican Short Stories – Best Books Boxed Set: 50+ Classics of American Literature Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsKate Chopin: The Complete Works (Annotated): Bayou Folk, A Night in Acadie, At Fault, The Awakening, and uncollected short stories Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Related to Short Stories - Kate Chopin
Related ebooks
Selected Essays Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSoul Songs Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsShort Stories Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMasters of Prose - Saki Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Punch Magazine Anthology of New Writing: Select Short Stories by Women Writers Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Collection of Stories, Reviews and Essays Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Garden Party and Other Stories Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Womens Short Stories 2 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsHauntings Fantastic Stories Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Cafe of Creativity and Inspiration For Writers Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Structure of the Novel Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsLiterary Titans Revisited: The Earle Toppings Interviews with CanLit Poets and Writers of the Sixties Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsLittle Did He Know: Stories from Another Lifetime Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsFiction - The Art and the Craft: How Fiction is Written and How to Write it Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsAt the End of Sleep Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsWalt Whitman: The Embodied Poet of Existence Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Poet's Freedom: A Notebook on Making Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe 90-Day Rewrite Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Little Catch: Writing the Short Story Including Nine Original Stories Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Study Guide for Anna Swir's "Maternity" Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBlack Bread Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Portrait of a Lady Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Composition Studies As A Creative Art Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsIlluminating Fiction Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsGuide to Crafting Bestselling Short Stories with Ease: Master the art of short story writing with expert tips and techniques Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBorderlands and Crossroads: Writing the Motherland Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Supernatural in Modern English Fiction Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsAmong the Wasps Silence: Twelve Dozen Haiku by a Portuguese Bum Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Romance For You
Bossy: An Erotic Workplace Diary Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Erotic Fantasies Anthology Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Adults Only Volume 3: Seven Erotica Shorts Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Under the Roses Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Before We Were Strangers: A Love Story Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5After Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5It Starts with Us: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Ugly Love: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Wish You Were Here: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Heart Bones: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Messy Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Wuthering Heights Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5November 9: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Him: Him, #1 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Stone Heart Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5All Your Perfects: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Maybe Not: A Novella Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Something Borrowed: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Dating You / Hating You Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5My Favorite Half-Night Stand Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Point of Origin Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Hopeless Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Swear on This Life: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Confess: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Home: the most moving and heartfelt novel you'll read this year Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Little Shop of Hidden Treasures: a joyful and heart-warming novel you won't want to miss Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Finding Perfect: A Novella Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Visitors Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Seven Sisters: Book One Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Without Merit: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Reviews for Short Stories - Kate Chopin
0 ratings0 reviews
Book preview
Short Stories - Kate Chopin - Kate Chopin
Table of Contents
Cover
The Book
The Author
Title
Copyright
Short Stories
Beyond the Bayou
Ma’ame Pelagie
Désirée’s Baby
A Respectable Woman
The Kiss
A Pair of Silk Stockings
The Locket
A Reflection
The Book
Kate Chopin, born Katherine O'Flaherty (February 8, 1850 – August 22, 1904), was a U.S. author of short stories and novels. She is now considered by some to have been a forerunner of the feminist authors of the 20th century of Southern or Catholic background, such as Zelda Fitzgerald.
This edition contains the stories:
Beyond the Bayou
Ma’ame Pelagie
Désirée’s Baby
A Respectable Woman
The Kiss
A Pair of Silk Stockings
The Locket
A Reflection
The Author
Kate Chopin, born Katherine O'Flaherty (February 8, 1850 – August 22, 1904), was a U.S. author of short stories and novels. She is now considered by some to have been a forerunner of the feminist authors of the 20th century of Southern or Catholic background, such as Zelda Fitzgerald.
From 1892 to 1895, she wrote short stories for both children and adults that were published in such magazines as Atlantic Monthly, Vogue, The Century Magazine, and The Youth's Companion. Her major works were two short story collections, Bayou Folk (1894) and A Night in Acadie (1897). Her important short stories included Désirée’s Baby,
a tale of miscegenation in antebellum Louisiana (published in 1893), The Story of an Hour
(1894), and The Storm
(1898). The Storm
is a sequel to The 'Cadian Ball,
which appeared in her first collection of short stories, Bayou Folk. Chopin also wrote two novels: At Fault (1890) and The Awakening (1899), which are set in New Orleans and Grand Isle, respectively. The characters in her stories are usually inhabitants of Louisiana. Many of her works are set in Natchitoches in north central Louisiana.
Within a decade of her death, Chopin was widely recognized as one of the leading writers of her time. In 1915, Fred Lewis Pattee wrote, some of [Chopin's] work is equal to the best that has been produced in France or even in America. [She displayed] what may be described as a native aptitude for narration amounting almost to genius.
Chopin was born Katherine O'Flaherty in St. Louis, Missouri. Her father, Thomas O'Flaherty, was a successful businessman who had emigrated from Galway, Ireland. Her mother, Eliza Faris, was a well-connected member of the French community in St. Louis and herself the daughter of Athénaïse Charleville, who was of French Canadian descent. Some of Chopin's ancestors were among the first European inhabitants of Dauphin Island, Alabama. She was the third of five children, but her sisters died in infancy and her half-brothers (from her father's first marriage) died in their early twenties. After her father's death in 1855, Chopin developed a close relationship with her mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother. She also became an avid reader of fairy tales, poetry, and religious allegories, as well as classic and contemporary novels.
In St. Louis, Missouri, on 8 June 1870, she married Oscar Chopin and settled in New Orleans. Chopin had six children between 1871 and 1879 –in order of birth, Jean Baptiste, Oscar Charles, George Francis, Frederick, Felix Andrew, and Lélia (baptized Marie Laïza). In 1879, Oscar Chopin's cotton brokerage failed, and the family moved to Cloutierville in south Natchitoches Parish to manage several small plantations and a general store. They became active in the community, and Chopin absorbed much material for her future writing, especially regarding the Creole culture of the area. Their home at 243 Highway 495 (built by Alexis Cloutier in the early part of the century) was a national historic landmark and the home of the Bayou Folk Museum. On October 1, 2008, the house was destroyed by a fire, with little left but the chimney.
When Oscar Chopin died in 1882, he left Kate with $42,000 in debt (approximately $420,000 in 2009 money). According to Emily Toth, for a while the widow Kate ran his [Oscar's] business and flirted outrageously with local men; (she even engaged in a relationship with a married farmer).
Although Chopin made an honest effort to keep her late husband's plantation and general store alive, two years later she sold her Louisiana business. Her mother implored her to move back to St. Louis, so Chopin did, and the children gradually settled into life in St. Louis, where finances were no longer a concern. The following year, Chopin's mother died.
Chopin now found herself in a state of depression after the loss of both her husband and her mother. Her obstetrician and family friend, Dr. Frederick Kolbenheyer, felt that writing would be a source of therapeutic healing for Kate during her hard times. He understood that writing could be a focus for