Kate Chopin Short Story Collection
About This Novel
Kate Chopin married Oscar Chopin, a cotton merchant, in 1870. The two first lived in New Orleans, Louisiana, and then moved to a large farm to live with the French-speaking Acadians. After her husband's death in 1882, Chopin returned to St. Louis with her six children. Friends encouraged her to write. She published her first novel, "Guilty" when she was almost forty years old. The masterpiece "The Awakening" was written in 1899. However, because the novel depicts the awakening of the heroine's "sexual consciousness" in a sympathetic tone towards adultery, and boldly reveals her view of love in pursuit of extramarital affairs, the novel caused an uproar in the American literary world as soon as it was published, shocking book critics and readers across the United States.
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