Bayou Folk & a Night in Acadie

Bernard Koloski, Kate Chopin

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Penguin Classics
01 March 1999

In one volume, the two short-story collections that established Kate Chopin as one of America's best-loved realist writers.

For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

By: Bernard Koloski, Kate Chopin
Imprint: Penguin Classics
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 128mm, Spine: 17mm
Weight: 278g
ISBN: 9780140436815
ISBN 10: 0140436812
Pages: 400
Publication Date: 01 March 1999
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Kate Chopin(1850-1904) was born in St. Louis. She moved to Louisiana where she wrote two novels and numerous stories. Because The Awakening was widely condemned, publication of Chopin's third story collection was cancelled. The Awakening was rediscovered by scholars in the 1960s and 1970s and is her best-known work.

Reviews for Bayou Folk & a Night in Acadie

Short stories of life in Louisiana. Although hints of Chopin's proto-feminist sensibility may be detected by the diligent, what strikes us more is the late-Victorian sentimentality and class-consciousness. Between the ex-slaves at the bottom of the social heap and the plantation owners at the top are the French-speaking Cajuns and various ethnic mixtures, carefully graded by skin colour. Depicting these 'bayou folk' as ignorant, feckless and impulsive, Chopin too often sounds like a South African complaining about her servants. And you need a high tolerance for dialect: 'W'at man dat? I is n' studyin' 'bout no mans; I go 'nough to do wid dis heah washin'.' (Kirkus UK)