The Warbler edition of Kate Chopin’s fiction offers readers her most intriguing stories along with her masterwork The Awakening. Filled with rich insights, Rafael Walker’s splendid introduction illuminates how the strictures in Chopin’s life may have shaped her storytelling. By showing us how Chopin’s fiction captures the complexity and transformative power of women’s desire, Walker distills Chopin’s lasting literary achievement.
—Nancy Bentley, Donald T. Regan Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania and author of Frantic Panoramas: American Literature and Mass Culture 1870-1920
This thoughtfully curated edition should bring a new generation of readers to the marvelous writing of Kate Chopin, with its combination of sensuous beauty and satiric bite. Rafael Walker’s insightful introduction brings forward the complexities of The Awakening‘s portrayal of a turn-of-the-century woman’s striving toward freedom, and the inclusion of some fascinating lesser-known stories provides a rich sense of the breadth of Chopin’s achievement.
—Jennifer Fleissner, Associate Professor of English at Indiana University and author of Women, Compulsion, Modernity: The Moment of American Naturalism
Price: $12.95 (paperback) | $3.99 (ebook)
Pages: 198 pages
Book dimensions: 5.25 x 0.5 x 8 in
Published: May 14, 2021
978-1-954525-36-8 (paperback)
978-1-954525-20-7 (ebook)