Bayou Folk

By Kate Chopin

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 children, with a surprise ending that subtly questions the feelings of racial superiority.'La Belle Zoraide' is about the cruelty of slaveholders in trying to arrange a marriage between a creole beauty and a mulatto she doesn't love.'A Lady of Bayou St. John' tells the tale of a young married woman in a lonely marriage who is attracted to another man and believes she will go "anywhere, anywhere" with him.You may well find yourself curled up on your sofa one evening reading all these great stories in one sitting!-

• Language: English
• Publisher: SAGA Egmont
• Release date: Jul 19, 2022
• ISBN: 9788728196052

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.

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