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Short Fiction
Chapitres (67)
- With the Violin 0:00
- A No-Account Creole: I 8:22
- A No-Account Creole — II 11:52
- A No-Account Creole — III 16:30
- A No-Account Creole — IV 23:23
- A No-Account Creole — V 28:20
- A No-Account Creole — VI 34:48
- A No-Account Creole — VII 42:32
- A No-Account Creole — VIII 48:32
- A No-Account Creole — IX 57:00
- For Marse Chouchoute 1:00:28
- The Maid of Saint Phillippe 1:14:06
- A Wizard from Gettysburg 1:29:39
- A Rude Awakening 1:44:29
- A Very Fine Fiddle 2:01:46
- Boulôt and Boulotte 2:04:55
- Love on the Bon-Dieu 2:07:24
- Beyond the Bayou 2:30:34
- After the Winter 2:43:01
- The Bênitous’ Slave 3:00:58
- A Turkey Hunt 3:04:43
- Old Aunt Peggy 3:08:32
- The Lilies 3:10:21
- Ripe Figs 3:20:55
- Loka 3:22:36
- At the ’Cadian Ball 3:36:59
- A Visit to Avoyelles 3:57:03
- Ma’ame Pélagie 4:04:25
- Désirée’s Baby 4:21:01
- Caline 4:32:44
- The Return of Alcibiade 4:37:19
- In and Out of Old Natchitoches 4:50:19
- Mamouche 5:17:41
- Madame Célestin’s Divorce 5:33:31
- A Matter of Prejudice 5:40:33
- Azélie 5:54:38
- A Lady of Bayou St. John 6:13:29
- La Belle Zoraïde 6:22:54
- At Chênière Caminada 6:34:25
- A Gentleman of Bayou Têche 6:55:44
- In Sabine 7:08:36
- A Respectable Woman 7:26:41
- Tante Cat’rinette 7:34:25
- A Dresden Lady in Dixie 7:51:56
- The Dream of an Hour 8:07:50
- The Night Came Slowly 8:13:14
- Juanita 8:14:53
- Cavanelle 8:18:49
- Regret 8:30:55
- Ozème’s Holiday 8:38:50
- A Sentimental Soul 8:52:26
- Odalie Misses Mass 9:13:15
- Polydore 9:23:42
- Dead Men’s Shoes 9:38:45
- Athénaïse: I 9:54:54
- Athénaïse — II 9:59:39
- Athénaïse — III 10:11:56
- Athénaïse — IV 10:18:34
- Athénaïse — V 10:22:55
- Athénaïse — VI 10:26:56
- Athénaïse — VII 10:33:22
- Athénaïse — VIII 10:38:04
- Athénaïse — IX 10:47:04
- Athénaïse — X 10:51:33
- Athénaïse — XI 10:58:28
- A Night in Acadie 11:00:42
- Nég Créole 11:36:02
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Kate Chopin’s most famous work nowadays is the novel The Awakening, but at the turn of the last century she was more famous for her short fiction, published in American magazines like the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Youth’s Companion, and Vogue. A prolific writer, over the course of fourteen years she penned nearly a hundred stories, although many didn’t see publication until a new collection was released in 1963. The stories focus on life in 1890s Louisiana, a setting that she was living in as a resident of New Orleans and Natchitoches. They’re told from many different points of view, but always with empathy for the struggles, both big and small, of the protagonists.
This collection contains the forty-nine short stories of Kate Chopin verified to be in the U.S. public domain, including “Désirée’s Baby” and “The Dream of an Hour.” They’re presented in the order they were originally written.