Book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1890. Excerpt: ... THE State Medical Society of Wisconsin met in its Forty-fourth Annual Session, in the Common Council Chambers of the City of Milwaukee, on Wednesday, June 4th, at 8 o'clock, P. M. The Society having been called to order by Dr. W. T. Sarles, the first Vice President, the proceedings were opened with prayer, offered by Rev. A. A. Kiehle. President E. M. Rogers, of Hartford, then delivered the annual address, the title of which was "A Sketch of the Progress of Medicine and Surgery." It was a brief but comprehensive outline of the remarkable advances in the science and art of surgery and medicine, with instructive comparisons between the old methods and new. At the conclusion of the address, which was listened to with marked attention, upon motion of Dr. G. D. Ladd the Society returned a vote of thanks to Dr. Rogers for his very able and interesting address, and it was referred to the Committee on Publication. The address is printed as Article II. The President called upon the Committee of Arrangement for their announcements and recommendations for the future sessions of the Society, and Dr. Walbridge, the Chairman, made the following report, which was accepted and adopted, upon motion of Dr. Puls: In behalf of the Committee of Arrangement, I wish to submit the following: The hours of meeting we would recommend to be from 9 o'clock in the morning until noon, and from 2 until 6 in the afternoon. We would recommend that there be no evening session after this evening. Let the first hour of each session be devoted to the general business of the Society, including the Censors' report, and the election of officers be the first business of the afternoon's session of Thursday, the 5th of June. This has generally been postponed until the last hour of the last day; and, usually, at that time, the...
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The Ultimate Collection of One of America's Best!,
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This review is from: The Complete Works of Kate Chopin (Southern Literary Studies) (Hardcover)
This is your "one-stop shop" for every single one of Kate Chopin's published works. Large and cumbersome but well worth the weight, it contains all of her fantastic local color stories from her books "A Night in Acadie", "Bayou Folk", and all of her other short stories (including her very first written in childhood), plus the novels "At Fault" and "The Awakening". Most of her work was buried for years and it is difficult and expensive to get all of her wonderful creations, so this is the way to go for the ardent Chopin fan, the Chopin scholar, or anyone that just loves great American literature.(Note:it is also very uncommon to find a place that sells this!)
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This review is from: The Complete Works of Kate Chopin (Southern Literary Studies) (Paperback)
So many people who have reviewed this anthology of Chopin's works have focused on only one story! "The Story of an Hour" is wonderful, but it's only about 2 pages in this large book. With that said, readers who are coming to Chopin for the first time should keep in mind that the protagonist's inner life is more important that anything else going on in that story. That's why there is so little about what happened before the husband supposedly dies and certainly very little after he arrives home safely. (The spoilers for the ending have already been given by earlier reviewers.) Readers can "get" a lot of it, though, just by reading very carefully. It's a "short" short story, and Chopin makes every word count. If you as a reader don't pay close attention to the words Chopin uses, you will miss the point. So, for someone who says, "I don't understand the story," I would say read it again, but more slowly this time.
The book, of course, has much more to offer than the few pages that "Hour" takes up. One of my favorites is "Desiree's Baby," where Chopin emphasizes character over plot in a story about racial prejudice. I won't tell you how it works out, though. You need to read it for yourself! Spoilers ruin the ends of stories that rely on a twist at the end.
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In the bayou,
This review is from: The Complete Works of Kate Chopin (Southern Literary Studies) (Paperback)
In the late 1800s, Kate Chopin set the literary world on fire with her now-classic novel "The Awakening." But that wasn't by any means the only writing Chopin did. "Complete Novels and Stories" brings together the assorted writings that Chopin did, before le scandale caused her to swear off writing forever.
Her first novel "At Fault" was apparently something of a roman a clef -- a thirtysomething Creole woman is widowed, and takes over the family estate. She falls in love with a businessman, David -- but he is divorced, and her strong Catholic beliefs don't allow her to marry a divorced man. "Awakening" was the novel that outraged the Victorian morals and sensibilities of the time, and tragically ended Chopin's writing career. Beautiful wife and mother Edna Pontellier has it all: a wealthy husband, cute kids, beautiful house... and yet she is dissatisfied. So Edna begins dabbling in painting and extramarital flirtations, with tragic results. "Bayou Folk" and a "Night in Acadie" are collections of short stories, centered in New Orleans and the areas of Louisiana nearby. Breakups, romance, death, marital dissatisfaction, freedom, racism and other still-touchy topics are explored in these stories, although bits of humor do intrude from time to time, such as the very short "Old Aunt Peggy," about an ancient black woman who astonishes everyone by never dying. Added on to these are a number of uncollected stories. It takes a lot to make a book "scandalous" now, but in the late 1800s -- the height of the Victorian era -- it was painfully easy. There's nothing shocking in Chopin's writing by current standards, leaving her writing as a grave look at human nature. In that sense, Chopin's stories are truly timeless, and not just for women. Continuing themes do run through Chopin's short stories and novels, such as freedom, social boundaries, and the restrictions put on women at the time. One particularly stunning story is "Desiree's Baby," about a young woman and her child who are cast out because the baby is not 100% white... except that her cruel husband has made a mistake. But it's not nearly as bleak as it sounds -- Chopin's writing is tempered by her dignified, distant 19th-century writing style, and the beauty of her descriptions. ("There was the hum of bees, and the musky odor of pinks filled the air.") Those descriptions can gloss over plot events as grim as suicide. "Complete Stories and Novels" is an excellent collection of Kate Chopin's work, and leaves one with regret that she didn't get to write even more during her brief lifetime.
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