| Bayou Folk and a Night in Acadie Contributor(s): Chopin, Kate (Author), Koloski, Bernard (Editor), Koloski, Bernard (Introduction by) |
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ISBN: 0140436812 ISBN-13: 9780140436815 Publisher: Penguin Group OUR PRICE: $20.90 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 1999 Annotation: In the decade prior to the publication of her landmark novel, The Awakening (1899), Kate Chopin wrote about ninety short stories. She gathered twenty-three of them in a collection entitled Bayou Folk in 1894, and followed that three years later with a collection of twenty-one more in A Night in Acadie. Together, these nuanced portraits of nineteenth-century inhabitants of New Orleans and Natchitoches Parish exquisitely form a sort of Southern novel of manners. Chopin was deeply influenced by the work of French and American realists. Many of the stories in Bayou Folk concern young people seeking good marriage partners and better lives for themselves. Expanding this theme into a search for balance and harmony, personal fulfillment, and cultural richness, A Night in Acadie is, Bernard Koloski notes in his Introduction, "one of America's best nineteenth-century collections of short stories -- and one of the most compassionate views of life in American realistic fiction". With a gentle, knowing gaze, Chopin evoked the distant world of Louisiana plantations and 'Cadian balls, and anticipated the thoroughly modern multi-ethnic, gender-sensitive, and sexually charged world of our century. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Classics - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Short Stories (single Author) |
| Dewey: 813.4 |
| LCCN: 98036398 |
| Series: Penguin Classics |
| Physical Information: 0.75" H x 5.07" W x 7.75" (0.6 lbs) 400 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1851-1899 - Cultural Region - Gulf Coast - Cultural Region - South - Geographic Orientation - Louisiana |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In one volume, the two short-story collections that established Kate Chopin as one of America's best-loved realist writers. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators. |