Works (Awakening / Beyond the Bayou / Desiree's Baby / Kiss / Locket / Ma'ame Pelagie / Pair of Silk Stockings / Reflection / Respectable Woman) by Kate Chopin
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A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner
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The Oxford Book of Gothic Tales by Chris Baldick, Anna Laetitia Aiken, Richard Cumberland, Anonymous, Juvenis., Isaac Crookenden, Petrus Borel, John Wadham, Edgar Allan Poe, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Bret Harte, George Washington Cable, Robert Louis Stevenson, Thomas Hardy, Marcel Schwob, Charlotte Perkins Stetson, Arthur Conan Doyle, Edith Nesbit, Ambrose Bierce, Ellen Glasgow, H.P. Lovecraft, William Faulkner, Clark Ashton Smith, Isak Dinesen, F.M. Mayor, Frederick Ignatius Cowles, Eudora Welty, Ray Russell, Alejandra Pizarnik, Jorge Luis Borges, Angela Carter, Joyce Carol Oates, Patrick McGrath, Isabel Allende
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Backpack Literature -- Fifth Edition by X. J. Kennedy, Dana Gioia, William Faulkner, Alice Walker, Kate Chopin, Jack London, Jorge Luis Borges, Chinua Achebe, John Steinbeck, Shirley Jackson, Margaret Atwood, Nathaniel Hawthorne, James Joyce, Lewis Carroll, William Shakespeare, Sylvia Plath, Emily Brontë, Edgar Allan Poe, Tennessee Williams
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40 Short Stories -- Sixth Edition by Beverly Lawn, Joanne Diaz, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe, Ambrose Bierce, Kate Chopin, Антон Павлович Чехов, James Joyce, William Faulkner, Gabriel García Márquez, Margaret Atwood, Alice Walker, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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The Story and Its Writer -- Compact Eighth Edition by Ann Charters, Chinua Achebe, Margaret Atwood, Ambrose Bierce, Jorge Luis Borges, Ray Bradbury, Антон Павлович Чехов, Kate Chopin, William Faulkner, Gabriel García Márquez, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Shirley Jackson, James Joyce, Herman Melville, Alice Munro, Edgar Allan Poe, Annie Proulx, Alice Walker, Richard Wright
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The Arbor House Treasury of Horror and the Supernatural by Bill Pronzini, Barry Malzberg, Stephen King, Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Bram Stoker, Henry James, Winston S. Churchill, Theodore Dreiser, H. G. Wells, Ambrose Bierce, H.P. Lovecraft, Robert Bloch, Cornell Woolrich, William Faulkner, Theodore Sturgeon, Fritz Leiber, Truman Capote, Fredric Brown, Evan Hunter, Karl Edward Wagner, Ray Russell, Robert Phillips, Thomas M. Disch, Henry Slesar, Adobe James, Robert Silverberg, John Lutz, Ramsey Campbell, Arthur Porges, Elizabeth Morton, Jack Dann, Theodore Cogswell, Cyril M. Kornbluth, Robert Scheckley, Barry N. Malzberg, Joyce Carol Oates, Charles L. Grant, Arthur L. Samuels, Edward D. Hoch, William F. Nolan
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The Story and Its Writer -- Ninth Edition by Ann Charters, Chinua Achebe, Margaret Atwood, Ambrose Bierce, Jorge Luis Borges, Ray Bradbury, Антон Павлович Чехов, Kate Chopin, Mark Twain, William Faulkner, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Gabriel García Márquez, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Shirley Jackson, James Joyce, Jack London, Herman Melville, Alice Munro, 村上春樹, Vladimir Nabokov, Edgar Allan Poe, Annie Proulx, Philip A. Roth, John Steinbeck, Alice Walker, Edith Wharton, Richard Wright, Albert Camus
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Literature, The Human Experience, Reading and Writing--Shorter Ninth Edition by Richard Abcarian, Marvin Klotz, William Shakespeare, Nathaniel Hawthorne, James Joyce, 村上春樹, Arthur Miller, Herman Melville, Shirley Jackson, Salman Rushdie, William Faulkner, Alice Walker, George Orwell, Kate Chopin, Sylvia Plath, Chinua Achebe, Edgar Allan Poe, Mark Twain
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The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction -- Shorter Seventh Edition by Richard Bausch, R. V. Cassill, Sherwood Anderson, Ambrose Bierce, Jorge Luis Borges, Антон Павлович Чехов, Kate Chopin, William Faulkner, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Gabriel García Márquez, Nathaniel Hawthorne, James Joyce, Herman Melville, Alice Munro, Vladimir Nabokov, Edgar Allan Poe, Philip A. Roth, John Steinbeck, Alice Walker, Richard Wright, Margaret Atwood
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Isaac Asimov Presents the Best Horror and Supernatural of the 19th Century by Isaac Asimov, Charles G. Waugh, Martin H. Greenberg, Washington Irving, Honoré de Balzac, Captain Marryatt, William Mudford, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Edgar Allan Poe, mrs. gaskell, Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford, Auguste comte de Villiers de L'Isle-Adam, Guy de Maupassant, Rudyard Kipling, Robert Louis Stevenson, Антон Павлович Чехов, W. C. Morrow, Leopold Ritter von Sacher-Masoch, Ambrose Bierce, Kate Chopin, Bram Stoker, Edwin L. Arnold, Ralph Adams Cram, H. G. Wells, Arthur Conan Doyle, Francis Marion Crawford, Robert Barr
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The Bedford Introduction to Literature--Reading, Thinking, Writing--Sixth Edition by Michael Meyer, Margaret Atwood, Lewis Carroll, Антон Павлович Чехов, Kate Chopin, Charles Dickens, William Faulkner, Nathaniel Hawthorne, James Joyce, Gabriel García Márquez, Herman Melville, Arthur Miller, Alice Munro, Sylvia Plath, Annie Proulx, William Shakespeare, Mark Twain, Alice Walker, Tennessee Williams, Edgar Allan Poe
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Subjects

short stories, Fiction, Louisiana Creoles, miscegenation, racism, quadroons, short story, meaning of love, selfhood, freedom, allegory, change, death, gentleman's agreements, nonlinear narrative, recluses, tradition, Mentally ill women, Classic Literature, Children's fiction

Places

Louisiana, L’Abri, Mallard residence, Jefferson, Mississippi, Yoknapatawpha County, United States, Massachusetts, New England, Salem Village, Alabama, Owl Creek Bridge, Araby, Araby bazaar, North Richmond Street, New York, Wall Street, New York City, Chênière Caminada, Grand Isle

People

Armand Aubigny, Désirée, La Blanche, Sandrine, Brently Mallard, Josephine, Louise Mallard, Richards, Colonel Sartoris, Homer Barron

Times

19th century, 1600s, 1861-65, Carnival, 1861-1865, 20th century, Civil War, 1888, 1890, 1912

Prolific Authors

who have written the most books on this subject
Kate Chopin, 97 books
William Faulkner, 57 books
Антон Павлович Чехов, 52 books
Edgar Allan Poe, 43 books
Ambrose Bierce, 41 books
Nathaniel Hawthorne, 39 books
Margaret Atwood, 36 books
James Joyce, 31 books
Chinua Achebe, 28 books
Jorge Luis Borges, 25 books
Herman Melville, 23 books
Alice Walker, 21 books
Shirley Jackson, 21 books
F. Scott Fitzgerald, 20 books
Alice Munro, 20 books
Mark Twain, 18 books
Ray Bradbury, 18 books
John Steinbeck, 18 books
Gabriel García Márquez, 17 books
Edith Wharton, 14 books
Richard Wright, 14 books
Arthur Conan Doyle, 12 books
Albert Camus, 11 books
Jack London, 11 books
Philip A. Roth, 9 books