The Awakening & Selected Stories

This is the first paperback edition to bring out in one volume Kate Chopin's extraordinary novel The Awakening (1899), along with the complete text of her two collections of short stories, Bayou Folk (1894) and A Night in Acadie (1897), and twelve uncollected tales.

The Awakening is a strikingly modern, evocative story of self-discovery and female emancipation, set in the sensuous environment of Southern Louisiana, where the young Edna Pontellier reclaims her own individuality, refusing to be defined by her roles of wife and mother.

Chopin's stories are brilliantly observed, compassionate and often humorous, alert to the foibles, weaknesses and small triumphs of her characters. Overshadowed by the relatively recent fame of The Awakening, they contain some of the best work of this remarkably original author.
--back cover

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION
BIBLIOGRAPHY
THE AWAKENING
BAYOU FOLK
A No-Account Creole
In and Out of Old Natchitoches
In Sabine
A very Fine Fiddle
Beyond the Bayou
Old Aunt Peggy
The Return of Alcibiade
A Rude Avakening
The Bénitous Slave
Désirée's Baby
A Turkey Hunt
Madame Célestin's Divorce
Love on the Bon-Dieu
Loka
Boulöt and Boulotte
For Marse Chouchoute
A Visit to Avoyelles
A Wizard from Gettysburg
Ma'ame Pélagie
At the 'Cadian Ball
La Belle Zoraide
A Gentleman of Bayou Téche
A Lady of Bayou StJohn
A NIGHT IN ACADIE
A Night in Acadie
Athénafse
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 Chéniére Caminada
Odalie Misses Mass
Cavanelle
Tante Cat'rinette
A Respectable Woman
Ripe Figs
Ozeme's Holiday
UNCOLLECTED STORIES
Wiser Than a God
A Point at Issue!
Mrs Mobry's Reason
The Maid of Saint Phillippe
Dr Chevalier's Lie
The Story of an Hour
Lilacs
The Kiss
Her Letters
Fedora
A Pair of Silk Stockings
An Egyptian Cigarette
GLOSSARY
NOTES 

Author: Kate Chopin

Publisher: Wordsworth

Released Date: 2015

ISBN: 9781840225846