When Jerome Lafirme died, his neighbors awaited the results of his sudden taking off with indolent watchfulness.
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At Fault
by Kate Chopin
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Widowed at thirty, beautiful, resourceful Therese Lafirme is left alone to run her Louisiana plantation. When Therese falls in love with David Hosmer, a divorced businessman, her strong moral and religious convictions make it impossible for her to accept his marriage proposal. Her determined rejection sets the two on a tumultous path that involves Hosmer's troubled former wife, Fanny.
At Fault is set in the Post-Reconstruction rural South against a backdrop of economic devastation and simmering racial tensions. Written at the beginning of her career, it has parallels to Chopin's own life and contains characters and themes that prefigure her later works, including The Awakening.
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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: A SCHOLARLY EDITION WITH BACKGROUND READINGS
2001, University of Tennessee Press
Hardcover
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At Fault: A SCHOLARLY EDITION WITH BACKGROUND READINGS
2001, University of Tennessee Press
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Includes bibliographical references (p. xxiii-xxvi).
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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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