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.

Bayou Folk and A Night in Acadie are short story collections by Louisiana Creole author Kate Chopin. Many of the stories are set in Natchitoches in north-central Louisiana. The characters in stories are usually residents of Louisiana, and many are Creoles of various ethnic or racial backgrounds. _x000D_ Table of Contents:_x000D_ Bayou Folk:_x000D_ A No-Account Creole_x000D_ In and Out of Old Natchitoches_x000D_ In Sabine_x000D_ A Very Fine Fiddle_x000D_ Beyond the Bayou_x000D_ Old Aunt Peggy_x000D_ The Return of Alcibiade_x000D_ A Rude Awakening_x000D_ The Bênitous' Slave_x000D_ Désirée's Baby_x000D_ A Turkey Hunt_x000D_ Madame Célestin's Divorce_x000D_ Love on the Bon-Dieu_x000D_ Loka_x000D_ Boulôt and Boulotte_x000D_ For Marse Chouchoute_x000D_ A Visit to Avoyelles_x000D_ A Wizard from Gettysburg_x000D_ Ma'ame Pélagie_x000D_ At the 'Cadian Ball_x000D_ La Belle Zoraïde_x000D_ A Gentleman of Bayou Têche_x000D_ A Lady of Bayou St. John_x000D_ A Night in Acadie:_x000D_ A Night in Acadie_x000D_ Athénaïse_x000D_ After the Winter_x000D_ Polydore_x000D_ Regret_x000D_ A Matter of Prejudice_x000D_ Caline_x000D_ A Dresden Lady in Dixie_x000D_ Nég Créol_x000D_ The Lilies_x000D_ Azélie_x000D_ Mamouche_x000D_ A Sentimental Soul_x000D_ Dead Men's Shoes_x000D_ At Chênière Caminada_x000D_ Odalie Misses Mass_x000D_ Cavanelle_x000D_ Tante Cat'rinette_x000D_ A Respectable Woman_x000D_ Ripe Figs_x000D_ Ozème's Holiday

This Companion offers students and scholars a comprehensive introduction to the development and the diversity of the American short story as a literary form from its origins in the eighteenth century to the present day. Rather than define what the short story is as a genre, or defend its importance in comparison with the novel, this Companion seeks to understand what the short story does – how it moves through national space, how it is always related to other genres and media, and how its inherent mobility responds to the literary marketplace and resonates with key critical themes in contemporary literary studies. The chapters offer authoritative introductions and reinterpretations of a literary form that has re-emerged as a major force in the twenty-first-century public sphere dominated by the Internet.

The Routledge Companion to Literature of the U.S. South provides a collection of vibrant and multidisciplinary essays by scholars from a wide range of backgrounds working in the field of U.S. southern literary studies. With topics ranging from American studies, African American studies, transatlantic or global studies, multiethnic studies, immigration studies, and gender studies, this volume presents a multi-faceted conversation around a wide variety of subjects in U.S. southern literary studies. The Companion will offer a comprehensive overview of the southern literary studies field, including a chronological history from the U.S. colonial era to the present day and theoretical touchstones, while also introducing new methods of reconceiving region and the U.S. South as inherently interdisciplinary and multi-dimensional. The volume will therefore be an invaluable tool for instructors, scholars, students, and members of the general public who are interested in exploring the field further but will also suggest new methods of engaging with regional studies, American studies, American literary studies, and cultural studies.

A collection of critical essays on Kate Chopin's work.

A feminist before such a term was created and most famous for The Awakening, the controversial Kate Chopin was also the author of a second novel, At Fault, as well as numerous short stories. This reference book begins with a brief introduction to Kate Chopin's varied background and her fictional work. A chronology traces the main events of her private and professional lives. Hundreds of alphabetically arranged entries follow, summarizing the plots of her novels and short stories, identifying her fictional characters, and relating them to her own experiences, to her family members and to her friends. Many entries include bibliographical citations.

This new edition of Southern Writers assumes its distinguished predecessor's place as the essential reference on literary artists of the American South. Broadly expanded and thoroughly revised, it boasts 604 entries-nearly double the earlier edition's-written by 264 scholars. For every figure major and minor, from the venerable and canonical to the fresh and innovative, a biographical sketch and chronological list of published works provide comprehensive, concise, up-to-date information. Here in one convenient source are the South's novelists and short story writers, poets and dramatists, memoirists and essayists, journalists, scholars, and biographers from the colonial period to the twenty-first century. What constitutes a "southern writer" is always a matter for debate. Editors Joseph M. Flora and Amber Vogel have used a generous definition that turns on having a significant connection to the region, in either a personal or literary sense. New to this volume are younger writers who have emerged in the quarter century since the dictionary's original publication, as well as older talents previously unknown or unacknowledged. For almost every writer found in the previous edition, a new biography has been commissioned. Drawn from the very best minds on southern literature and covering the full spectrum of its practitioners, Southern Writers is an indispensable reference book for anyone intrigued by the subject.

Includes 9 masterful portraits of black and white inhabitants of Louisiana's bayou and urban areas. Written with grace, delicate humor, and a keen understanding of the female psyche.