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At fault / Kate Chopin ; edited with an introduction and notes by Bernard Koloski.
LIBRA PS1294.C63 A63 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Chopin, Kate, 1850-1904.
- Series:
- Penguin classics
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women plantation owners--Fiction.
- Women plantation owners.
- Cane River Region (La.)--Fiction.
- Cane River Region (La.).
- Plantation life--Fiction.
- Plantation life.
- Divorced men--Fiction.
- Divorced men.
- Young women--Fiction.
- Young women.
- Louisiana--Fiction.
- Louisiana.
- Creoles--Fiction.
- Creoles.
- Widows--Fiction.
- Widows.
- Genre:
- Psychological fiction.
- Love stories.
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- xxvii, 177 pages ; 20 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Penguin Books, 2002.
- Summary:
- Thérèse Lafirme, a beautiful and resourceful Creole woman, is widowed at age thirty-two and left alone to run her Louisiana plantation. When Thérèse falls in love with David Hosmer, a divorced businessman, her strong moral and religious convictions make it impossible for her to accept his marriage proposal. Her determined rejection sets the two on a tumultuous path that involves Hosmer's former wife, Fanny. "At Fault" is both romantic and filled with stark realism-a love story that expands to address the complex problem of balancing personal happiness and social duty-set in the post-Reconstruction South against a backdrop of economic devastation and simmering racial tensions. Written at the beginning of her career, "At Fault" parallels Chopin's own life and introduces characters and themes that appear in her later works, including "The Awakening."
- Contents:
- I. The Mistress of Place-du-Bois 5
- II. At the Mill 10
- III. In the Pirogue 14
- IV. A Small Interruption 19
- V. In the Pine Woods 22
- VI. Melicent Talks 28
- VII. Painful Disclosures 34
- VIII. Treats of Melicent 41
- IX. Face to Face 47
- X. Fanny's Friends 52
- XI. The Self-Assumed Burden 58
- XII. Severing Old Ties 62.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages xxiii-xxvi).
- ISBN:
- 0142437026
- OCLC:
- 47742292
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