The Awakening and Selected Short Stories

Project Gutenberg's The Awakening and Selected Short Stories, by Kate Chopin This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: The Awakening and Selected Short Stories Author: Kate Chopin Release Date: March 11, 2006 [EBook #160] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE AWAKENING AND SELECTED *** Produced by Judith Boss and David Widger THE AWAKENING AND SELECTED SHORT STORIES by Kate Chopin With an Introduction by Marilynne Robinson Contents THE AWAKENING I XI XXI XXXI II XII XXII II XII XXII XXXII III XIII XXIII XXXIII IV XIV XXIV XXXIV V XV XXV XXXV VI XVI XXVI XXXVI VII XVII XXVII XXXVII VIII XVIII XXVIII XXXVIII IX XIX XXIX XXXIX X XX XXX BEYOND THE BAYOU MA'AME PELAGIE I II III IV DESIREE'S BABY A RESPECTABLE WOMAN THE KISS A PAIR OF SILK STOCKINGS THE LOCKET I II A REFLECTION THE AWAKENING I A green and yellow parrot, which hung in a cage outside the door, kept repeating over and over: "Allez vous-en! Allez vous-en! Sapristi! That's all right!" 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. Mr.