
Kate Chopin was an American novelist and short-story writer best known for her startling 1899 novel, The Awakening. Born in St. Louis, she moved to New Orleans after marrying Oscar Chopin in 1870. Less than a decade later Oscar's cotton business fell on hard times and they moved to his family's plantation in the Natchitoches Parish of northwestern Louisiana. Oscar died in 1882 and Kate was suddenly a young widow with six children. She turned to writing and published her first poem in 1889. The Awakening, considered Chopin's masterpiece, was subject to harsh criticism at the time for its frank approach to sexual themes. It was rediscovered in the 1960s and has since become a standard of American literature, appreciated for its sophistication and artistry. Chopin's short stories of Cajun and Creole life are collected in Bayou Folk (1894) and A Night in Acadie (1897), and include "Desiree's Baby," "The Story of an Hour" and "The Storm." Some biographers cite 1850 as Chopin's birth year.
Series
Books

Athénaïse
1894

Doctor Chevalier's Lie
2011

A Vocation and a Voice
Stories
1991

The Blind Man
2010

Kısa Öykünün Büyük Ustaları
2016

A Matter of Prejudice and Other Stories
1992

The Awakening and Selected Short Stories
1899

The Locket
1894

A Night In Acadie
1897

The Very Best Classic Short Stories
2011

Desiree's Baby
1893

The Kiss
1895

The Storm
1969

Beyond the Bayou and Other Short Stories by Kate Chopin
2000

The Short Stories Of Kate Chopin
2013

Шедьоври на разказа с неочакван край - Т. I
2017

A Respectable Woman
1894

The Awakening and Selected Stories of Kate Chopin
1899

A Pair of Silk Stockings
1897

The Awakening and Other Stories
2000

The Story of an Hour
1894

The Awakening and Selected Stories
1981
The Night Came Slowly
2025

The Awakening and Selected Short Fiction
1997

The Awakening & Other Stories
2023

The Kiss and Other Stories
1897

The Complete Novels and Stories
2016
Miss McEnders
2015

Góticas y tenebrosas
Mujeres que cuentan historias oscuras
2021

The Awakening
1899

Portraits
1981
Ripe Figs
2025

A Reflection
1894

At Fault
1890

A Pair of Silk Stockings and Other Stories
1996

Nine Stories
2022

Lilacs and Other Stories
2005

Lilacs
1969

Bayou Folk and A Night in Acadie
1999

Beyond the Bayou
1893

Cuentos breves para leer en el bus
2004

Bayou folk
1891

The Egyptian Cigarette
1995

A Collection of Kate Chopin's Short Stories
2013
Dead Men's Shoes
2025

At the 'Cadian Ball
1892

Il risveglio e altri racconti
2020

Regret
1894

Her Letters
1895

The Father of Desiree's Baby and Other Stories
1893

An Idle Fellow
2019

Ma'ame Pelagie
2017