Katherine Chopin

Titles in Fiction category:

• Awakening, The    

  A green and yellow parrot, which hung in a cage outside the door, kept repeating over and over:

Titles in Short Stories category:

• Beyond the Bayou    

  The bayou curved like a crescent around the point of land on which La Folle's cabin stood. Between the stream and the hut lay a big abandoned field, where cattle were pastured when the bayou supplied them with water enough. Through the woods that spread back into unknown regions the wom ...

• Desiree's Baby    

  As the day was pleasant, Madame Valmonde drove over to L'Abri to see Desiree and the baby.

• Kiss, The    

  It was still quite light out of doors, but inside with the curtains drawn and the smouldering fire sending out a dim, uncertain glow, the room was full of deep shadows.

• Locket, The    

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• Pair of Silk Stockings, A    

  Little Mrs. Sommers one day found herself the unexpected possessor of fifteen dollars. It seemed to her a very large amount of money, and the way in which it stuffed and bulged her worn old porte-monnaie gave her a feeling of importance such as she had not enjoyed for years.

• Reflection, A

  Some people are born with a vital and responsive energy. It not only enables them to keep abreast of the times; it qualifies them to furnish in their own personality a good bit of the motive power to the mad pace. They are fortunate beings. They do not need to apprehend the significance ...

• Respectable Woman, A    

  Mrs. Baroda was a little provoked to learn that her husband expected his friend, Gouvernail, up to spend a week or two on the plantation.