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(0)Kate Chopin
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English
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Edna Pontellier has everything that a woman and mother should want - two wonderful sons, a husband, and good financial fortune. But still, she feels like something may be missing. While vacationing with her family, she meets a young man who shows affection and opens her mind to adventure and freedom.
Edna’s desire for freedom and independence begins to fester in her heart, and she finds that she is increasingly disenchanted with the responsibilities...
2) At Fault
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Project Gutenberg
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English
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At Fault (1890) is a novel by American author Kate Chopin. Published at the author's expense, At Fault is the undervalued debut of a pioneering feminist and gifted writer who sought to portray the experiences of Southern women struggling to survive in an era decimated by war and economic hardship.
Thérèse Lafirme is a Creole widow whose husband's death has made the Place-du-Bois plantation on the Cane River in northwestern Louisiana her sole responsibility....
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English
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Unsatisfied with the expectations of Creole society and unhappy with her family life, Edna Pontellier begins to fall in love with the dapper Robert Lebrun. Lebrun's flirtations, along with the lifestyle of renowned musician Mademoiselle Reisz, rejuvenates Edna's sense of freedom and independence. However, an affair with the womanizer Alcee Arobin provides Edna with a taste of the danger that comes with living outside of social convention. Trapped...
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Publisher
Dreamscape Media
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
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In "A Pair of Silk Stockings", Mrs. Sommers, a once wealthy woman who has fallen on hard times comes into possession of a small fortune of $15. Planning to spend the money on clothing for her children, she becomes sidetracked at a shop counter, entranced by the smoothness of a pair of silk stockings. She goes on to spend the money on the stockings as well as new boots and gloves for herself. In succumbing to “mechanical impulses that direct her...
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Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
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In 1899 Kate Chopin stunned the literary world with the publication of The Awakening, her tale of a woman who seeks personal fulfillment in a relationship outside of her tradition-bound marriage and household. Controversial in its day, Chopin's pioneering novel served as a touchstone for many modernist works published in its wake and is regarded a landmark work of feminist literature. This collection of Chopin's fiction features the full novel and...
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Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 17
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English
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When first published in 1899, charges of sordidness and immorality consigned The Awakening into initial obscurity and irreparably damaged its author's literary and social reputation. In her introduction, Sandra M. Gilbert considers the issues explored in the novel and the stories from their growth out of the feminist literary tradition of the nineteenth century to their place among other concerns of fin de siècle writers in America and England.
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Series
Library of America volume 136
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Library of America
Pub. Date
c2002
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English
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Publisher
The Audio Partners Publishing Corporation
Pub. Date
1997
Language
English
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This anthology of complete short fiction represents some of the most significant and enjoyable work from the most influential women authors of the 19th and early 20th centuries. Stories by Willa Cather (1873-1947), read by Chris McGlasson: "On the Divide" and "The Garden Lodge." Stories by Kate Chopin (1850-1904), read by Tamara Walters: "A Point at Issue," "The Story of an Hour," "Desiree's Baby," and "A Pair of Silk Stockings." Stories by Charlotte
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Naxos AudioBooks
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English
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Here are eight stories from master American writers of the nineteenth century. They vary from sinister tales by Ambrose Bierce – why is that window boarded up? – and a reflective moment in the life of a woman without children, forced to look after children, to classic short stories by O. Henry and Stephen Crane. There is even an elegiac description of an eclipse by James Fenimore Cooper, author of The Last of the Mohicans. Read with sensitivity
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Canongate Books
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
The second of CSA Word's popular women's short story collections
This excellent production lifts the curtain on some forgotten stories - The Scotsman
The Best of Women's Short Stories, Volume 2 is a celebration of iconic female writers from the 19th and 20th centuries; featuring eight full-length stories relating the many experiences and complexities of womanhood. This collection brings together stories by Katherine Mansfield, Mary Shelley, Elizabeth...
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Spotify Audiobooks
Pub. Date
2003
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English
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Ten superbly narrated stories that help explain America by America's best writers. Irving's incredible and amusing tale of the archetypal "Rip Van Winkle" relates the story of a man who slept through history. Stephen Crane's "The Red Badge of Courage" tells of a young soldier who must struggle with his conscience no matter what the consequences. "The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" is Mark Twain's hilarious story of a contest to end
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Naxos AudioBooks
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
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Five stories from influential women writers of the nineteenth century and the first decades of the twentieth century. New Zealand-born Katherine Mansfield settled in England where she wrote a series of short stories that are widely recognised as among the finest of the twentieth century for their economy, clarity, sensitivity and effect. 'The Garden Party' is one of her most famous, while 'Daughters of the Late Colonel' shows a wonderful sense of...
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Musaicum Books
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
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Invest your time in reading the true masterpieces of world literature, the great works of the greatest masters of their craft, the revolutionary works, the timeless classics and the eternally moving poetry of words and storylines every person should experience in their lifetime:
Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (Robert Louis Stevenson)
A Doll's House (Henrik Ibsen)
A Tale of Two Cities (Charles Dickens)
Dubliners (James Joyce)
A Portrait of the...
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Publisher
e-artnow
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
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Invest your time in reading the true masterpieces of world literature, the greatest works by the masters of their craft, the revolutionary works, the timeless classics and the eternally moving storylines every person should experience in their lifetime: Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (Robert Louis Stevenson) A Doll's House (Henrik Ibsen) A Tale of Two Cities (Charles Dickens) Dubliners (James Joyce) A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (James...
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Publisher
DigiCat
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's '180 Classics You Must Read In Your Lifetime (Vol.2)' is a veritable lexicon of seminal works that have shaped the landscape of world literature. This tome encompasses a diverse array of narrative forms, from the sinuous complexities of Tolstoy's 'War and Peace' to the modernist sensibilities of James Joyce's 'Dubliners'. The collection boasts a wide-ranging compilation that includes epics like Homer's 'Iliad & Odyssey',...