Bayou Folk

by Kate Chopin, The Perfect Library (Editor)

Overview

"Bayou Folk" from Kate Chopin. American author of short stories and novels (1850-1904).

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781511451130
Publisher:	CreateSpace Publishing
Publication date:	03/25/2015
Pages:	154
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.33(d)

About the Author

Kate Chopin (1850-1904) is an American writer best known for her stories about the inner lives of sensitive, daring women. Her novel The Awakening and her short stories are read today in countries around the world, and she is widely recognized as one of America's essential authors.

Her short stories were well received in in the 1890s and were published by some of America's most prestigious magazines-Vogue, the Atlantic Monthly, Harper's Young People, the Youth's Companion, and the Century. A few stories were syndicated by the American Press Association. Many of her stories also appeared in her two published collections, Bayou Folk(1894) and A Night in Acadie (1897), both of which received good reviews from critics across the country who praised them for their graceful descriptions of the lives of Creoles, Acadians, African-Americans, and other people in Louisiana. Twenty-six of her stories are children's stories-those published in or intended for children's or family magazines-the Youth's Companion and others. By the late 1890s Kate Chopin was well known among American readers of magazine fiction.

Her early novel At Fault (1890) was not much noticed, but The Awakening (1899) was widely condemned. Critics called it morbid, vulgar, and disagreeable. Chopin's work was mostly forgotten after her death, but, beginning in the 1950s, scholars rediscovered it and praised it for its truthful depictions of women's lives.

Table of Contents

A NO-ACCOUNT CREOLE

I.

II.

III.

IV.

V.

VI.

VII.

VIII.

IX.

IN AND OUT OF OLD NATCHITOCHES.

IN SABINE.

A VERY FINE FIDDLE.

BEYOND THE BAYOU.

OLD AUNT PEGGY.

THE RETURN OF ALCIBIADE.

A RUDE AWAKENING.

THE BÊNITOUS' SLAVE.

DÉSIRÉE'S BABY.

A TURKEY HUNT

MADAME CÉLESTIN'S DIVORCE.

LOVE ON THE BON-DIEU.

LOKA.

BOULÔT AND BOULOTTE.

FOR MARSE CHOUCHOUTE

A VISIT TO AVOYELLES.

A WIZARD FROM GETTYSBURG.

MA'AME PÉLAGIE.

I.

II.

III.

IV.

AT THE 'CADIAN BALL.

LA BELLE ZORAÏDE.

A GENTLEMAN OF BAYOU TÊCHE.

A LADY OF BAYOU ST. JOHN.

Editorial Reviews

What Harding & Offdean had called a piece of land on Red River was better known to the people of Natchitoches parish as "the old Santien place."

In the days of Lucien Santien and his hundred slaves, it had been very splendid in the wealth of its thousand acres. But the war did its work, of course. Then Jules Santien was not the man to mend such damage as the war had left. His three sons were even less able than he had been to bear the weighty inheritance of debt that came to them with the dismantled plantation; so it was a deliverance to all when Harding & Offdean, the New Orleans creditors, relieved them of the place with the responsibility and indebtedness which its ownership had entailed.

Hector, the eldest, and Grégoire, the youngest of these Santien boys, had gone each his way. Placide alone tried to keep a desultory foothold upon the land which had been his and his forefathers'. But he too was given to wandering - within a radius, however, which rarely took him so far that he could not reach the old place in an afternoon of travel, when he felt so inclined.

There were acres of open land cultivated in a slovenly fashion, but so rich that cotton and corn and weed and "Cocoa-grass" grew rampant if they had only the semblance of a chance.

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