Literature
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Ripe Figs by Kate Chopin
Maman-Nainaine said that when the figs were ripe Babette might go to visit her cousins down on Bayou-Boeuf, where the…
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The Blind Man by Kate Chopin
A man carrying a small red box in one hand walked slowly down the street. His old straw hat and…
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The Kiss by Kate Chopin
It was still quite light out of doors, but inside with the curtains drawn and the smouldering fire sending out…
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The Lilies by Kate Chopin
THAT little vagabond Mamouche amused himself one afternoon by letting down the fence rails that protected Mr. Billy’s young crop…
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The Locket by Kate Chopin
The Locket is Chopin’s poignant Civil War story. Modern readers may be tempted to misread the word ‘sward’ as ‘sword,’…
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The Night Came Slowly by Kate Chopin
I am losing my interest in human beings; in the significance of their lives and their actions. Some one has…
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The Recovery by Kate Chopin
She was a woman of thirty-five, possessing something of youthfulness. It was not the bloom, the softness, nor delicacy of…
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The Return of Alcibiade by Kate Chopin
MR. FRED BARTNER was sorely perplexed and annoyed to find that a wheel and tire of his buggy threatened to…
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The Storm by Kate Chopin
The Storm (1898) was much more popular than its prequel, At the ‘Cadian Ball (1892). “So the storm passed and…
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The Story of An Hour by Kate Chopin
Knowing that Mrs. Mallard was afflicted with a heart trouble, great care was taken to break to her as gently…
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