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Kate Chopin


Born
in St. Louis, Missouri, The United States
February 08, 1850

Died
August 22, 1904

Genre
Fiction


Kate Chopin was an American novelist and short-story writer best known for her startling 1899 novel, The Awakening. Born in St. Louis, she moved to New Orleans after marrying Oscar Chopin in 1870. Less than a decade later Oscar's cotton business fell on hard times and they moved to his family's plantation in the Natchitoches Parish of northwestern Louisiana. Oscar died in 1882 and Kate was suddenly a young widow with six children. She turned to writing and published her first poem in 1889. The Awakening, considered Chopin's masterpiece, was subject to harsh criticism at the time for its frank approach to sexual themes. It was rediscovered in the 1960s and has since become a standard of American literature, appreciated for its sophistication ...more

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Average rating: 3.74 · 290,949 ratings · 17,617 reviews · 800 distinct works • Similar authors
The Awakening
3.69 avg rating — 223,753 ratings — published 1899 — 1230 editions
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The Story of an Hour
4.06 avg rating — 26,194 ratings — published 1894 — 46 editions
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The Awakening and Selected ...
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3.92 avg rating — 10,694 ratings — published 1899 — 402 editions
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Desiree's Baby
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The Awakening and Selected ...
3.76 avg rating — 3,005 ratings — published 1899 — 470 editions
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3.82 avg rating — 2,521 ratings — published 1899 — 22 editions
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A Pair of Silk Stockings
3.65 avg rating — 2,441 ratings — published 1897 — 5 editions
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The Storm
3.60 avg rating — 2,165 ratings — published 1969 — 13 editions
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3.92 avg rating — 1,878 ratings — published 1899 — 16 editions
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3.85 avg rating — 1,093 ratings — published 2000 — 111 editions
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“The voice of the sea speaks to the soul.”
― Kate Chopin, The Awakening
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“She wanted something to happen - something, anything: she did not know what.”
― Kate Chopin
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“Perhaps it is better to wake up after all, even to suffer, rather than to remain a dupe to illusions all one's life.”
― Kate Chopin, The Awakening, and Selected Stories
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