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Kate Chopin: Complete Novels and Stories: At Fault / Bayou Folk / A Night in Acadie / The Awakening / Uncollected Stories (Library of America) Hardcover – September 30, 2002

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From ruined Louisiana plantations to bustling, cosmopolitan New Orleans, Kate Chopin wrote with unflinching honesty about propriety and its strictures, the illusions of love and the realities of marriage, and the persistence of a past scarred by slavery and war. Her stories of fiercely independent women challenged contemporary mores as much by their sensuousness as their politics, and today seem decades ahead of their time. Now, The Library of America collects all of Chopin’s novels and stories as never before in one authoritative volume.

The explosive novel At Fault (1890) centers on a love triangle between a strong-willed young widow, a stiff St. Louis businessman, and the man’s alcoholic wife. In the two story collections Bayou Folk (1894) and A Night in Acadie (1897), Chopin transforms the popular local color sketch into taut, perfectly calibrated tales that portray Louisiana bayou cultures with sympathetic insight and an eye to the unresolved conflicts of a South reeling from the Civil War.

In The Awakening (1899), the novel that scandalized many of her contemporaries and effectively ended her public career as a writer, Chopin tells the story of Edna Pontellier, a restless, unsatisfied woman who embarks on a quixotic search for fulfillment. Rendered with masterful precision, detachment, and a suggestive ambiguity that defies easy judgments about Edna’s actions, The Awakening is the novel that restored Chopin to literary prominence after its rediscovery by critics in the 1960s and 1970s.

The volume also includes all the stories not collected by Chopin, including those meant for A Vocation and a Voice, a projected volume that her publisher canceled in 1900; stories that Chopin never tried to publish, such as the erotically daring “The Storm”; and “Ti Frère,” “A Horse Story,” and “Alexandre’s Wonderful Experience,” three stories which were found in 1992 in a long-lost cache of Chopin’s papers.

LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation’s literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America’s best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.

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“Chopin is not, and never has been, a writer who is easily summed up. Here we get everything—the complete stories and the novels—in one tidy, well-presented package… Chopin’s richness is best swallowed in great quantities, and this new edition makes that possible.” —Buffalo News

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Kate Chopin (1850–1904) was born in St. Louis and moved to Louisiana where she wrote two novels and numerous stories. She is best known for the landmark book, The Awakening (1899), which advanced an implicit assertion of erotic freedom that got it banned from libraries and curtailed Chopin’s literary career. Forgotten for a time after her death, Chopin’s work has been rediscovered as inspiringly free-spirited and ahead of its time.

Sandra M. Gilbert, volume editor, is professor of English emerita at the University of California, Davis. She has published numerous volumes of criticism, a memoir, and six collections of verse; most recently she is the author of Acts of Attention: The Poetry of D. H. Lawrence (1990) and Kissing the Bread: New and Selected Poems 1969-1999 (2000).

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ 1931082219
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Library of America; First Edition Thus (September 30, 2002)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 1075 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9781931082211
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1931082211
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.5 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.3 x 1.3 x 8.2 inches

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Born and raised in St. Louis, Kate Chopin (1850-1904) moved to Louisiana to marry the son of a cotton grower. A mother of six by the age of twenty-eight and a widow at thirty-two, she turned to writing to support her young family. She is best known today for The Awakening (1899), a portrait of marriage and motherhood so controversial it fell out of print shortly after publication and was not rediscovered until the 1960s.

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jimmy

Ahead of Her Time

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 11, 2020

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Kate Chopin (1851-1904) demonstrates in her works a strong postmodernist attitude towards gender, sex, and social norms.. Her novel "The Awakening" particularly dramatizes the conflict between what society and religion expect of a woman, a wife, a mother, etc. and what a free individual actually wants and feels and thinks and dreams. On one side, there is the everlasting demand for constraint, propriety, appearance. On the other, there is the inner need to express oneself and to break free from all forms of chains: patriarchy, norms, expectations. This underlying tension informs all her novels and short stories. A free postmodern spirit.

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Same problem as some of the other reviewers noticed

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 22, 2020

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but partially fixed, starts not in the brief story “Bayou Folk” but starting with “A Night in Acadie” fully halfway through the volume.

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Stunning and Brave Writer Ahead of Her Time

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 15, 2013

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Kate Chopin had guts. She was an independent thinker that valued her individuality and free spirit.
She never shied away from tough topics such as the role of women in marriage and society, race, and the power of the individual and all done in a thought-provoking, fearless and often deft-penned manner.

I have much respect for her as a person and, most of all, her writings.

If you have already read her work and like it, by all means this is a great book to have.
If you haven't read her work, read one of her short stories, The Story of an Hour or Desiree's Baby, to see if you like it. If you're hooked, this is a great book that gives you her work in one wonderful volume.

Enjoy!

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A. Williams

A Fine Collection

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 26, 2007

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This book is a great collection of Kate Chopin's writings. Chopin truly has a way of portraying women in her writings much differently than society in her day believed they should be. If you read her works knowing this, you will come to respect her work the way I have. I believe that in a time when women weren't allowed to speak out on the injustice they faced in society, and the belief that they couldn't be independent sexual creatures, Kate Chopin was making a stand in her writings to express how complex, independent, and sexual they really were. She is an amazing writer and this is an amazing collection.

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Good writing, good edition

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 20, 2016

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Great edition, though like other Library of America titles, an introduction or some sort of presence of editorship would serve it well. Chopin is an excellent writer and one worth reading. Beautiful edition, including a ribbon to save your place, and easy to read well. This would make an excellent gift for someone you know who is a fan of 19th century American literature or wants to know more about women writers before they began to make up a large portion of all authors being published.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 23, 2020

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Chopin is generally known for only The Awakening. This collection is the perfect introduction the the depth and range of her work.

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Marvellous collection, shame the copy editor took off early.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 20, 2019

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The writing it powerful. I am well into the second book, Bayou Folk. Suddenly, the copy editing of what was surely an OCR processed text, stops. paragraphs are broken into center aligned two line chunks. Spelling fails. This is bed enough in the English passages, but the Cadian French is almost unintelligible.
It is disappointing that the publisher cares so little about the reader, and the text.
The three stars are for the writing, which might well have merited a 4 or 4.5, but the editing is just too bad for more.

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Laurie G

One of my Top Ten authors/books

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 13, 2010

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Excellent book written by a very independent woman of the late 1800's So much so she was ostrasized for her writings.The female liberation movement of the 1960's brought her writing back to new generations of women.She is more appreciated by today's women for her views. The Awakening is the best story in the book,but all of Chopin's stories are memorable and worth the read!

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VERY small print

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on June 13, 2022

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This edition is just total Jump Street! Poorly formatted and the print is about half the size of most books.
Dont waist your money unless you have invested in a magnifying glass.
Manufactured by Amazon.ca - yikes on this one.

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