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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: 3.73 · 260,750 ratings · 13,923 reviews · 555 distinct works • Similar authors
The Awakening
3.68 avg rating — 201,324 ratings — published 1899 — 2741 editions
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The Story of an Hour
4.08 avg rating — 22,992 ratings — published 1894 — 37 editions
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The Awakening and Selected ...
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3.91 avg rating — 11,635 ratings — published 1899 — 344 editions
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Desiree's Baby
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4.03 avg rating — 4,840 ratings — published 1893 — 19 editions
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The Awakening and Selected ...
3.74 avg rating — 2,862 ratings — published 1899 — 837 editions
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A Pair of Silk Stockings
3.64 avg rating — 2,164 ratings — published 1897 — 27 editions
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The Storm
3.62 avg rating — 1,876 ratings — published 1969 — 10 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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April 2019 Revisit the Shelf Poll

Dracula by Bram Stoker, 488 pages, 1897, Group read: 2011, 2015
 
  103 votes, 32.6%

The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton, 351 pages, 1905, Group read: 2017
 
  49 votes, 15.5%

Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry, 945 pages, 1985, Group read: 2012
 
  49 votes, 15.5%

The Awakening by Kate Chopin, 195 pages, 1899, Group read: 2015
 
  46 votes, 14.6%

The Scarlet Pimpernel by Emmuska Orczy, 274 pages, 1905, Group read: 2011, 2015
 
  38 votes, 12.0%

Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson, 460 pages, 1994, Group read: 2013
 
  31 votes, 9.8%

316 total votes
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