Thérèse Lafirme, a handsome Creole widow, runs her four-thousand-acre plantation of Place-du-Bois on the Cane River with surprising success. When David Hosmer, a lumberman from St. Louis, opens a mill on her land, she falls in love with him, but her conscience will not let her accept a divorced man, and her sense of duty sets painful events in motion.
Kate Chopin’s first novel, published in 1890, already alive with the questions that would make The Awakening famous. Download the free EPUB.