In the decade before the appearance of her landmark novel, The Awakening, Kate Chopin published Bayou Folk (1894) and A Night in Acadie (1897), collections of stories set in New Orleans and rural Louisiana.
Bayou Folk by Kate Chopin. CLASSIC AMERICAN LITERATURE. Kate Chopin, born Katherine O'Flaherty (February 8, 1850 - August 22, 1904), was a U.S. author of short stories and novels based in Louisiana.
Bayou Folk is a Chopin's classic book containing of 23 masterpiece short stories shows rural life in Louisiana after the American Civil War and how former slaves, people of color,...
With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Kate Chopin’s Bayou Folk is a classic of American literature reimagined for modern readers.
One agreeable afternoon in late autumn two young men stood together on Canal Street, closing aconversation that had evidently begun within the club-house which they had just quitted.
Best known for her novel The Awakening, Kate Chopin (1851-1904) established her literary reputation with short stories about life in rural Louisiana during the late nine-teenth century. After her 1870...
It was one afternoon in April, not long ago, only the other day, and the shadows had already begun to lengthen.
"At the 'Cadian Ball," another well-known story in the collection, features the dashing Alc e Laballiere, Chopin's fictional portrayal of her own lover, Albert Sampite.
Her important short stories included "D sir e's Baby," a tale of miscegenation in antebellum Louisiana (published in 1893), "The Story of an Hour" (1894), and "The Storm"(1898).
One agreeable afternoon in late autumn two young men stood together on Canal Street, closing a conversation that had evidently begun within the club-house which they had just quitted.
Kate Chopin's classic stories about Creole and Cajun life in Louisiana in the late nineteenth century. This is the Large Print Edition with easy-to-read 20 point type.
Bayou Folk by Kate Chopin A middle-aged black woman named La Folle lives in a cabin next to an abandoned field next to the swamp and has never visited the forest beyond her home.
A wide-ranging collection from classics of fiction tales to humorous sketches to romances, these short stories, with their interesting and diverse characters, have something for everyone. ‘Desiree’s Baby’ deals with mixed-race ...
Some of these stories are little more than croquis — just a brief incident of idea sketched in with a few rapid strokes and left to the imagination of the reader to be materialized, if we may so speak.
While this collection earned Chopin praise, her acclaim diminished within her lifetime as she more frequently turned to subject matter that critics considered scandalous.