This book contains the complete novels and stories of Kate Chopin in the chronological order of their original publication. NOVELS: At Fault The Awakening SHORT STORIES: Emancipation: A Life Fable Wiser Than a God With the Violin A Point at Issue! Miss Witherwell’s Mistake A Harbinger The Maid of Saint Phillipe The Going Away of Liza Croque-Mitaine A Little Free-Mulatto Mrs. Mobry’s Reason A Shameful Affair Doctor Chevalier’s Lie The Story of an Hour A No-Account Creole In and Out of Natchitoches In Sabine A Very Fine Fiddle Beyond the Bayou Old Aunt Peggy The Return of Alcibiade A Rude Awakening The Bênitous’ Slave Désirée’s Baby A Turkey Hunt Madame Célestin’s Divorce Love on the Bon-Dieu Loka Boulôt and Boulotte For Marse Chouchoute A Visit to Avoyelles A Wizard from Gettysburg Ma’ame Pelagie At the ‘Cadian Ball La Belle Zoraïde A Gentleman of Bayou Têche A Lady of Bayou St. John Vagabonds Two Portraits Juanita The Night Came Slowly Her Letters A Respectable Woman The Kiss The Unexpected Two Summers and Two Souls The Recovery Lilacs A Mental Suggestion Suzette A Pair of Silk Stockings The Locket A Night in Acadie Athénaïse After the Winter Polydore Regret A Matter of Prejudice Caline A Dresden Lady in Dixie Nég Créol The Lilies Azélie Mamouche A Sentimental Soul Dead Men’s Shoes At Chênière Caminada Odalie Misses Mass Cavanelle Tante Cat’rinette Ripe Figs Ozème’s Holiday A Morning Walk An Egyptian Cigarette Miss McEnders The Blind Man Aunt Lympy’s Interference Fedora The Gentleman from New Orleans Elizabeth Stock’s One Story The Storm A Horse Story A Reflection A December Day
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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.
