The Top 10 Short Stories - Kate Chopin: The top ten Short Stories written by Kate Chopin

Written by Kate Chopin

Narrated by Liza Ross, Laurel Lefkow and Ghizela Rowe

Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. A few pages can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere.

In this series we try to offer up tried and trusted ‘Top Tens’ across many different themes and authors. But any anthology will immediately throw up the questions – Why that story? Why that author?

The theme itself will form the boundaries for our stories which range from well-known classics, newly told, to stories that modern times have overlooked but perfectly exemplify the theme. Throughout the volume our authors whether of instant recognition or new to you are all leviathans of literature.

Some you may disagree with but they will get you thinking; about our choices and about those you would have made. If this volume takes you on a path to discover more of these miniature masterpieces then we have all gained something.

It is difficult to propose a more gifted exponent of the short story than Kate Chopin. Her individual jewels may be but a few pages but are laden with atmosphere and character as they run their enchanted course. Her genius will always endure.

1 - The Top 10 - Kate Chopin - An Introduction

2 - The Storm by Kate Chopin

3 - Desiree's Baby by Kate Chopin

4 - A Pair of Silk Stockings by Kate Chopin

5 - A Respectable Woman by Kate Chopin

6 - An Egyptian Cigarette by Kate Chopin

7 - The Kiss by Kate Chopin

8 - The Locket by Kate Chopin

9 - The Lillies by Kate Chopin

10 - The Story of An Hour by Kate Chopin

11 - Ma'ame Pelagie by Kate Chopin

• Language: English
• Publisher: The Copyright Group
• Release date: Feb 2, 2022
• ISBN: 9781803541679

Kate Chopin

Kate Chopin (1850-1904) was an American writer. Born in St. Louis, Missouri to a family with French and Irish ancestry, Chopin was raised Roman Catholic. An avid reader, Chopin graduated from Sacred Heart Convent in 1968 before marrying Oscar Chopin, with whom she moved to New Orleans in 1870. The two had six children before Oscar’s death in 1882, which left the family with extensive debts and forced Kate to take over her husband’s businesses, including the management of several plantations and a general store. In the early 1890s, back in St. Louis and suffering from depression, Chopin began writing short stories, articles, and translations for local newspapers and literary magazines. Although she achieved moderate critical acclaim for her second novel, The Awakening (1899)—now considered a classic of American literature and a pioneering work of feminist fiction—fame and success eluded her in her lifetime. In the years since her death, however, Chopin has been recognized as a leading author of her generation who captured with a visionary intensity the lives of Southern women, often of diverse or indeterminate racial background.