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The Awakening, and Selected Short Stories

Kate Chopin

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He could speak a little Spanish, and also a language which nobody understood, unless it was the mocking-bird that hung on the other side of the door, whistling his fluty notes out upon the breeze with maddening persistence.…

Details

  • AuthorKate Chopin
  • SourceProject Gutenberg #160
  • Length63,943 words · 4h 16m of reading
  • Chapters46
  • DictionaryIncluded
  • CopyrightPublic domain in the United States
  • Source checked2026-08-12

Contents

46 chapters

Recovered from the original source text, so you can open the book at any of them.

  1. 01THE AWAKENING
  2. 02VI
  3. 03VII
  4. 04VIII
  5. 05IX
  6. 06XI
  7. 07XII
  8. 08XIII
  9. 09XIV
  10. 10XV
  11. 11XVI
  12. 12XVII
  13. 13XVIII
  14. 14XIX
  15. 15XX
  16. 16XXI
  17. 17XXII
  18. 18XXIII
  19. 19XXIV
  20. 20XXV
  21. 21XXVI
  22. 22XXVII
  23. 23XXVIII
  24. 24XXIX
  25. 25XXX
  26. 26XXXI
  27. 27XXXII
  28. 28XXXIII
  29. 29XXXIV
  30. 30XXXV
  31. 31XXXVI
  32. 32XXXVII
  33. 33XXXVIII
  34. 34XXXIX
  35. 35BEYOND THE BAYOU
  36. 36MA’AME PÉLAGIE
  37. 37II
  38. 38III
  39. 39IV
  40. 40DÉSIRÉE’S BABY
  41. 41A RESPECTABLE WOMAN
  42. 42THE KISS
  43. 43A PAIR OF SILK STOCKINGS
  44. 44THE LOCKET
  45. 45II
  46. 46A REFLECTION

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