Desiree's Baby
3 Installments—Entirely free
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Tags: Classics, Short Stories, Women
ISBN:1588276627
About the Author
Born in St. Louis to a comfortable family, Kate Chopin (1851-1904) grew up a voracious reader. After her education, she was married at the early age of twenty. By age twenty-eight, she had borne six children. Although Chopin and her husband settled in New Orleans originally, strained finances forced their family to relocate to rural Louisiana. Here, Chopin began to make observations into human nature and society that would fuel the striking characters and settings of her later writings. Chopin's husband died suddenly, and she moved her family back to St. Louis, where she was further shattered by the subsequent death of her mother. When her family doctor suggested writing as a way to draw herself out of depression, Chopin found her calling. She enjoyed success through stories published in literary magazines, but when her novel The Awakening debuted, she found that she had pushed the boundaries of convention and propriety too far for the American public. Chopin's striking depiction of a married woman who forsakes her husband, children, and home for the love of another man was simply too much for contemporary readers. Chopin, crushed by this negative response, retreated from the spotlight. Though her works were not published for many years following her death, they are now considered to be valuable and provocative expressions of the unvoiced passions, thoughts, and ambitions of women constrained by the rules of an earlier age.
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As the day was pleasant, Madame Valmonde drove over to L'Abri to see Desiree and the baby.
It made her laugh to think of Desiree with a baby. Why, it seemed but yesterday that Desiree was little more than a baby herself; when Monsieur in riding through the gateway of Valmonde had found her lying ...
Member review
5/5
Reviewed by SmokeDiamond on Aug 3, 2009
Wonderful
This short story says SOOO much with just 3 installments. It is the best short story I've ever read! I recommend that EVERYONE read this one. It has the best underlying lesson to learn. LOVE IT!!!!
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Ratings for 'Desiree's Baby' by Chopin, Kate
| babblative | | 2009-03-23 | |
| BabsG | | 2008-12-07 | |
| lizkies |  | 2008-10-30 | |
| MandieGayle |  | 2008-09-23 | |
| mmreyna1 | | 2009-07-15 | |
| MonicaR | | 2009-09-04 | |
| SmokeDiamond | | Read review | 2009-08-03 |
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