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Kate Chopin


Born
in St. Louis, Missouri, The United States
February 08, 1850

Died
August 22, 1904

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Kate Chopin was an American author whose fiction grew out of the complex cultures and contradictions of Louisiana life, and she gradually became one of the most distinctive voices in nineteenth century literature. Raised in a household shaped by strong women of French and Irish heritage, she developed an early love for books and storytelling, and that immersion in language later shaped the quiet precision of her prose. After marrying and moving to New Orleans, then later to the small community of Cloutierville, she absorbed the rhythms, customs, and tensions of Creole and Cajun society, finding in its people the material that would feed both her sympathy and her sharp observational eye. When personal loss left her searching for direction, s ...more

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“The voice of the sea speaks to the soul.”
Kate Chopin, The Awakening

“She wanted something to happen - something, anything: she did not know what.”
Kate Chopin

“Perhaps it is better to wake up after all, even to suffer, rather than to remain a dupe to illusions all one's life.”
Kate Chopin, The Awakening, and Selected Stories

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April Revisit the Shelves Polls

Persuasion by Jane Austen pub 1817, 247 pages, Last read April 2018
 
  41 votes, 22.5%

The Plague by Albert Camus 308 pages, published 1947. last read June 2015
 
  28 votes, 15.4%

Meditations by Marcus Aurelius first published 180, 100-300 pages. Last read June 2020
 
  25 votes, 13.7%

The Awakening by Kate Chopin 195 pages, pub 1899 last read Dec 2015
 
  24 votes, 13.2%

Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy First published in 1895, 310 pages. Last read Oct. 2018
 
  23 votes, 12.6%

The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper 1826. 410 pp (incl. material). Last read Aug. 2017
 
  21 votes, 11.5%

Villette by Charlotte Brontë 573 pages, published 1853. Last read in April 2017
 
  20 votes, 11.0%

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