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Introduction and Notes by Professor Stephen Arkin

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Bayou Folk & a Night in Acadie Delivery:OS Fitzgerald’s razor-sharp re-creation of aIn the decade prior to the publication of her landmark novel, THE AWAKENING (1899), Kate Chopin wrote about ninety short stories, a selection of which appeared in BAYOU FOLK (1894) and A NIGHT IN ACADIE (1897). Chopin was deeply influenced by thework of the French and American realists and her portraits of the inhabitants of nineteenth century New Orleans and Natchitoches Parish offer one of the most compassionate views of life in American realistic