Kate Chopin’s most famous work nowadays is the novel
The Awakening, but at the turn of the last century she was more famous for her short fiction, published in American magazines like the
St. Louis Post-Dispatch,
Youth’s Companion, and
Vogue. A prolific writer, over the course of fourteen years she penned nearly a hundred stories, although many didn’t see publication until a new collection was released in 1963. The stories focus on life in 1890s Louisiana, a setting that she was living in as a resident of New Orleans and Natchitoches. They’re told from many different..." data-title="Книга Short Fiction">