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In her own time, the works of Kate Chopin (1851–1904) shocked readers and critics with their challenge to contemporary mores. Her stories and novels reveal unsparing truths about the interior lives of women, some of whom experienced profound disillusionment with the rigid yoke of marriage, combined with an unfulfilled longing for self-realization. Celebrated today as a precursor of twentieth-century feminism, Chopin's fiction is considered to be among the masterpieces of American literature.
True to the writer's intrepid explorations of taboo subjects and resonating with autobiographical elements, At Fault masterfully portrays a complex love triangle amid the tensions of the rural post-Reconstruction South. Thérèse Lafirme is a young Creole widow in love with a divorced St. Louis businessman, David Hosmer. The moral and religious constraints thrust upon Thérèse prevent her acceptance of Hosmer's wedding proposal, setting the two on a treacherous path that involves Hosmer's former wife, Fanny. Originally published in 1890, the novel is marked by the same fearless examination of society and sexuality that distinguish Chopin's later works.
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divorce, Widows, Literature, Classic Literature, Women plantation owners, Fiction, Divorced men, Young women, Creoles, Plantation life, psychological fiction, love stories, Fiction, general, American fiction (fictional works by one author), Louisiana, fiction, Fiction, psychological, Creoles, fiction, Widows, fiction, Divorced people, fiction, Young women, fiction, Fiction, romance, generalPeople
Thérèse Lafirme, Hiram, Belindy, Betsy, Mandy, Grégoire Santien, David Hosmer, Melicent Hosmer, Joçint, Morico, Cynthy, Suze, Mose, Minervy, Araminty, Sampson, Marie Louise, Pierson, Joseph Duplan, Mrs. Duplan, Ninette Duplan, Rufe Jimson, Johannah, Nathan, Agnes, Fanny Larimore Hosmer, Belle Worthington, Lorenzo Worthington, Lucilla Worthington, Lou Dawson, Jack DawsonPlaces
Louisiana, Cane River Region, Place-du-Bois, sawmill, Fanny’s home, Les Chênières plantation, Cornstalk, Texas, Cane River, St. Louis, MissouriTimes
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At Fault
2007, Dover Publications, Inc.
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At Fault: A SCHOLARLY EDITION WITH BACKGROUND READINGS
2001, University of Tennessee Press
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2001, University of Tennessee Press
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At Fault is Kate Chopin’s early novel about a young widow seeking to reconcile her own needs with those of the people she is responsible for.
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