Kate Chopin’s second collection of stories, published in 1897, is set among the Cajun and Creole people of Louisiana. A young man escorts a headstrong girl to a country ball, a restless bride runs away from her husband in Athénaïse, an old maid briefly cares for a neighbour’s children in Regret, and a shiftless boy named Polydore is shamed into a conscience.
Sharp, tender stories from a writer whose reputation keeps growing, for readers of Southern and women’s fiction. Download the free EPUB.