Kate Chopin

Gebundenes Buch

The Awakening and Selected Short Stories

Beschreibung

A green and yellow parrot, which hung in a cage outside the door, kept repeating over and over: "Allez vous-en! Allez vous-en! Sapristi! That's all right!" He could speak a little Spanish, and also a language which nobody understood, unless it w

Autor

Kate Chopin (1850-1904) was born in St. Louis and spent much of her life in Louisiana. Widowed with six children at age thirty-two, she published stories and articles often set in the Creole culture of late-nineteenth-century New Orleans. The candor and sympathy with which she explored the contours of modern women's lives were unprecedented. So prescient were Chopin's fictions that, many decades after her death, they would become touchstones for second-wave feminism.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: 1st World Library - Literary Society
• Seitenzahl: 244
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. November 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 493g
• ISBN-13: 9781421823959
• ISBN-10: 1421823950
• Artikelnr.: 21947040