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The Awakening is a novel by Kate Chopin, first published on 22 April 1899.Set in New Orleans and on the Louisiana Gulf coast at the end of the 19th century, the plot centers on Edna Pontellier and her struggle between her increasingly unorthodox views on femininity and motherhood with the prevailing social attitudes of the turn-of-the-century American South.
Plot summary. The narrator of this short story is handed a hand-made box of cigarettes that is made in yellow paper by an architect. The narrator is first hesitant, but then takes the box. As soon as she takes the first cigarette her mind immediately goes into a strange dream where her visions make her feel grief, love, and suicidal in the ...
Kate Chopin (/ ˈʃoʊpæn /, [1][2] also US: / ʃoʊˈpæn, ˈʃoʊpən /; [3] born Katherine O'Flaherty; February 8, 1850 [4] – August 22, 1904) [5] was an American author of short stories and novels based in Louisiana. She is considered by scholars [6] to have been a forerunner of American 20th-century feminist authors of Southern or ...
Magazine. Publisher. Vogue [1] " The Story of an Hour " is a short story written by Kate Chopin on April 19, 1894. It was originally published in Vogue on December 6, 1894, as " The Dream of an Hour ". It was later reprinted in St. Louis Life on January 5, 1895, as "The Story of an Hour". The title of the short story refers to the time elapsed ...
Magazine. Publication date. September 1897. " A Pair of Silk Stockings " is an 1897 short story written by Kate Chopin. The story follows Mrs. Sommers who prefers spending a windfall on herself, rather than on her children.
Suicide, the act of deliberately killing oneself, is a prominent action in many important works of literature. Authors use the suicide of a character to portray defiance, despair, love, or honor. Whether it is written as the ultimate act of devotion or the result of depression, the act of suicide was and is a prevalent action within the context ...
Publication date. February 20, 1897. "Fedora" is a short story written by Kate Chopin in 1895. The story was published under the title "The Falling in Love of Fedora" in The Criterion, a local St. Louis magazine, on February 20, 1897. The story centers on Fedora, a woman who becomes infatuated with Young Malthers and his sister, Miss Malthers.
William Goldman (August 12, 1931 – November 16, 2018) was an American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter. He first came to prominence in the 1950s as a novelist before turning to screenwriting.