Kate Chopin: Complete Novels and Stories (LOA #136): At Fault / Bayou Folk / A Night in Acadie / The Awakening / uncollected stories

This edition is just total Jump Street! Poorly formatted and the print is about half the size of most books.Dont waist your money unless you have invested in a magnifying glass. Manufactured by Amazon.ca - yikes on this one.

This book is a great collection of Kate Chopin's writings. Chopin truly has a way of portraying women in her writings much differently than society in her day believed they should be. If you read her works knowing this, you will come to respect her work the way I have. I believe that in a time when women weren't allowed to speak out on the injustice they faced in society, and the belief that they couldn't be independent sexual creatures, Kate Chopin was making a stand in her writings to express how complex, independent, and sexual they really were. She is an amazing writer and this is an amazing collection.

Chopin is generally known for only The Awakening. This collection is the perfect introduction the the depth and range of her work.

Kate Chopin had guts. She was an independent thinker that valued her individuality and free spirit.She never shied away from tough topics such as the role of women in marriage and society, race, and the power of the individual and all done in a thought-provoking, fearless and often deft-penned manner.I have much respect for her as a person and, most of all, her writings.If you have already read her work and like it, by all means this is a great book to have.If you haven't read her work, read one of her short stories, The Story of an Hour or Desiree's Baby, to see if you like it. If you're hooked, this is a great book that gives you her work in one wonderful volume.Enjoy!

Excellent book written by a very independent woman of the late 1800's So much so she was ostrasized for her writings.The female liberation movement of the 1960's brought her writing back to new generations of women.She is more appreciated by today's women for her views. The Awakening is the best story in the book,but all of Chopin's stories are memorable and worth the read!