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Lilacs by Kate Chopin
Mme. Adrienne Farival never announced her coming; but the good nuns knew very well when to look for her. When…
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Loka by Kate Chopin
She was a half-breed Indian girl, with hardly a rag to her back. To the ladies of the Band of…
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Love on the Bon-Dieu by Kate Chopin
UPON the pleasant veranda of Père Antoine’s cottage, that adjoined the church, a young girl had long been seated, awaiting…
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Ma’ame Pelagie by Kate Chopin
IWhen the war began, there stood on Cote Joyeuse an imposing mansion of red brick, shaped like the Pantheon. A…
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Madame Célestin’s Divorce by Kate Chopin
MADAME CÉLESTIN always wore a neat and snugly fitting calico wrapper when she went out in the morning to sweep…
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Mamouche by Kate Chopin
MAMOUCHE stood within the open doorway, which he had just entered. It was night; the rain was falling in torrents,…
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Ozème’s Holiday by Kate Chopin
OZÈME often wondered why there was not a special dispensation of providence to do away with the necessity for work.…
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Polydor by Kate Chopin
It was often said that Polydore was the stupidest boy to be found “from the mouth of Cane river plumb…
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Regret by Kate Chopin
This story was first published in 1897 when it appeared in Chopin’s short story collection A Night in Acadia.MAMZELLE AURLIE…
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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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