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In 1969, Per Seyersted gave the world the first collected works of Kate Chopin. Seyersted's presentation of Chopin's writings and biographical and bibliographical information led to the rediscovery and celebration of this turn-of-the-century author. Newsweek hailed the two-volume opus—"In story after story and in all her novels, Kate Chopin's oracular feminism and prophetic psychology almost outweigh her estimable literary talents. Her revival is both interesting and timely." Now for the first time, Seyersted's Complete Works is available in a single-volume paperback. It is the first and only paperback edition of Chopin's total oeuvre. Containing twenty poems, ninety-six stories, two novels, and thirteen essays—in short, everything Chopin wrote except several additional poems and three unfinished children's stories—as well as Seyersted's original revelatory introduction and Edmund Wilson's foreword, this anthology is both a historical and a literary achievement. It is ideal for anyone who wishes to explore the pleasures of reading this highly acclaimed author.
About the Author:
Per Seyersted also published in 1969 Kate Chopin: A Critical Biography, which remains in print. He lived from 1921–2005 and was a professor of American literature at the University of Oslo.
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Tahosa Callahan
reviewed The Complete Works of Kate Chopin on June 12, 2017 The Complete Works of Kate Chopin
I haven't read this book, but why let that stop me from rating it? Actually, I just bought it and removed the plastic wrap. Ah ~ plastic wrap! All books should be so well packaged!
Complete Novels and Stories is #136 in the Library of America series and I couldn't resist having all of Kate Chopin's fiction in one attractive and compact volume. It's going to replace my four Penguin paperbacks: The Awakening and Selected Stories, Bayou Folk and A Night in Acadie, A Vocation and a Voice, and At Fault.
Perhaps a word of explanation is due for the book titled A Vocation and a Voice. This collection was never published in Chopin's lifetime, but it was released by Penguin Books in 1991 with an introduction by Emily Toth. It includes twenty-three stories that Chopin intended for this collection.
The volume The Awakening and Selected Stories includes, in addition to The Awakening, twelve short stories, six of which are in Bayou Folk and A Night in Acadie and three of which are in A Vocation and a Voice.
That means, of the fifty-five uncollected stories in Complete Novels and Stories, twenty-nine are not included in any of these four paperbacks. That is my rationalization for buying this book and I think it's a pretty good one. (Some of my rationalizations for buying books would be quite unconvincing to anyone who wasn't a fellow book lover.)
Of my paperbacks, I've read everything except At Fault. I suspected I wouldn't like it because I didn't like The Awakening. Now everyone will yell at me because this is her masterpiece so what business do I have not liking it? But I don't, and I realize the problem lies with me, not Chopin. The prose in The Awakening is as beautiful as in the short stories. I just didn't like the ending and I didn't like Edna.
I read The Awakening for the first time in college and I read it again years later, hoping to like it better the second time. But nope. I still didn't like it. Nevertheless, I wasn't about to give up on Chopin, so I got Bayou Folk and A Night in Acadie and I just loved those two short story collections. I was surprised at how much I loved them considering my reaction to The Awakening. But it's probably not that big of a mystery. I've long been a fan of local color literature.
So one of these days I'm going to stop fondling Complete Novels and Stories and read it through from beginning to end, giving At Fault my first reading, revisiting Bayou Folk, A Night in Acadie, and The Awakening, and then reading the uncollected stories, which will be a mixture of rereads and first time reads.
For anyone interested in knowing which of the uncollected stories are in A Vocation and a Voice, here's the list:
An Idle Fellow
The Story of an Hour
Lilacs
The Night Came Slowly
Juanita
The Kiss
Her Letters
Two Summers and Two Souls
The Unexpected
Two Portraits
Fedora
The Recovery
The Blind Man
A Vocation and a Voice
A Mental Suggestion
Suzette
A Morning Walk
An Egyptian Cigarette
Elizabeth Stock's One Story
A Horse Story
The Godmother
Ti Démon
The White Eagle
And these are the three stories that are in The Awakening and Selected Stories (along with six stories from Bayou Folk and A Night in Acadie).
Emancipation. A Life Fable
A Pair of Silk Stockings
The Storm
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