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  • THE AWAKENING
    KATE CHOPIN
    The Awakening is set in New Orleans and the Southern Louisiana coast at the end of the nineteenth century. This landmark novel was one of the earliest works of feminism and a precursor to American modernism and the great southern novelists such as William Faulkner, Flannery O'Connor, Eudora Welty, and Tennessee Williams. Edna Pontellier struggles to reconcile her views of fem...

    $19.00

  • A NIGHT IN ACADIE
    KATE CHOPIN
    A Night in Acadie (1897) is a short story collection by American author Kate Chopin. Chopin, a pioneering feminist and gifted writer, sought to portray the experiences of Southern women and ethnic minorities struggling to survive in an era decimated by war and economic hardship. A Night in Acadie collects twenty-one of her stories. ...

    $39.70

  • THE AWAKENING, AND SELECTED SHORT STORIES
    KATE CHOPIN
    This is a short novel, published in 1899. It caused such a scandal that it was banned for decades afterward. The furore over this book was so upsetting to Kate Chopin that she gave up writing altogether. The story is about Mrs. Edna Pontellier, a Kentucky girl married to Leonce, a New Orleans Creole. One summer, When she is twenty-eight, something inside her starts to shift. Sh...

    $39.70

  • AT FAULT
    KATE CHOPIN
    Widowed at thirty, beautiful, resourceful Therese Lafirme is left alone to run her Louisiana plantation. When Therese falls in love with David Hosmer, a divorced businessman, her strong moral and religious convictions make it impossible for her to accept his marriage proposal. Her determined rejection sets the two on a tumultuous path that involves Hosmer's troubled former wife...

    $39.70

  • BAYOU FOLK
    KATE CHOPIN
    Bayou Folk (1894) is a collection of 23 short stories that tell of life in 19th century Louisiana – on the bayou, in small towns, plantations, and New Orleans. It’s a kaleidoscope of locations, types of stories, and races of characters – whites, Creoles, Acadians, ‘Negros’, and ‘Mulattoes’ are all mixed together here. Most are poor and many are illiterate. The stories take plac...

    $39.70

  • THE AWAKENING
    KATE CHOPIN
    Kate Chopin’s groundbreaking novel of early feminism set against the evocative backdrop of turn-of-the-century New Orleans Edna Pontellier is trapped. By her marriage, by her responsibilities to two young sons, by the expectations of Creole society. When she falls in love with the charming and flirtatious Robert Lebrun during a summer on the Louisiana coast, Edna awakens to a n...

    $85.00

  • CLASSIC FEMINIST FICTION
    CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN / ARTHUR B. REEVE / KATE CHOPIN
    Novels of romance, science fiction, and crime that explore gender roles and social expectations—and helped shape women’s history.   These three novels provide a fascinating look at some of the literary voices that influenced early views of feminism.   Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Three sociology students journey into an uncharted region of South America and are shocked ...

    $119.00

  • EL DESPERTAR Y OTROS RELATOS
    CHOPIN KATE
    «El despertar es un libro profundamente whitmaniano, no sólo en sus ecos poéticos, sino –más decisivamente– en su perspectiva erótica.» Harold BloomA finales del siglo XIX, la viuda de un plantador de algodón de Luisiana regresa a St. Louis, su ciudad natal, y empieza a ganarse la vida como escritora. Sus relatos sobre el mundo de los criollos y los acadianos de Luisiana, con s...
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    $900.00