The Awakening and Other Stories - Kate Chopin - Dover Bookshelf

The Awakening and Other Stories is a hardback collection by Kate Chopin. It is published in the Dover Bookshelf series.

Included titles

• The Awakening
• A Pair of Silk Stockings
• A Respectable Woman
• At the ’Cadian Ball
• Beyond the Bayou
• The Kiss
• Lilacs
• Ripe Figs

Key details

• Author: Kate Chopin
• Series: Dover Bookshelf
• Format: Hardback
• Pages: 240
• Publisher: Dover Publications Inc
• ISBN: 9780486854533

Synopsis

This Dover Bookshelf hardback brings together Chopin’s best-known novel, first published in 1899, alongside fifteen short stories that have remained of interest to scholars, students, and general readers. Written out of the author’s years in New Orleans and shaped by the city’s Creole culture, the collection reflects her distinctive approach to storytelling and her sharp observations of social life.

At its centre is a novel that examines a New Orleans wife’s search for love beyond the limits of a restrictive marriage, a subject treated with notable boldness for its time. The accompanying stories include A Pair of Silk Stockings, A Respectable Woman, At the ’Cadian Ball, Beyond the Bayou, The Kiss, Lilacs, Ripe Figs, and eight others, making this volume well suited to literature and fiction reading.

Rackhams Reference : THK4VIAJ2L