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Overview
Thérèse Lafirme is a Creole widow whose husband’s death has made the Place-du-Bois plantation on the Cane River in northwestern Louisiana her sole responsibility. Struggling to survive in a region that, following the fall of the Confederacy, has failed to recover from the devastation of defeat, Lafirme agrees to sell her land’s timber rights to a recently divorced businessman named David Hosmer. As the two begin to fall in love, Hosmer’s sawmill causes tension in an agrarian community unaccustomed to modern industry. Hosmer proposes to Thérèse, she is forced to consider the prospect of marriage against the opinion her community as well as her own moral and religious values, to set her personal desires aside in order to appease tradition. When Fanny, Hosmer’s alcoholic ex-wife, re-enters the picture, trouble ensues that threatens to ruin Lafirme’s reputation as an honest, hardworking woman. At Fault, like much of Chopin’s work, went largely unnoticed upon publication, but has since garnered critical acclaim as a work that explores the lived experiences of women and racial minorities during a period of political and economic upheaval. Both fictional and autobiographical—Chopin was a widow of French heritage who struggled to provide for her family following her husband’s death—At Fault is an underappreciated masterpiece of nineteenth-century literature.
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Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9783734028106 |
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Publisher: | Outlook Verlag |
Publication date: | 09/23/2018 |
Pages: | 158 |
Product dimensions: | 5.83(w) x 8.27(h) x 0.37(d) |
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Table of Contents
Preface | xiii | |
Acknowledgments | xv | |
Editorial Practices | xvii | |
Introduction | xix | |
Part 1 | ||
Chapter I. | The Mistress of Place-Du-Bois | 3 |
Chapter II. | At the Mill | 7 |
Chapter III. | In the Pirogue | 11 |
Chapter IV. | A Small Interruption | 16 |
Chapter V. | In the Pine Woods | 19 |
Chapter VI. | Melicent Talks | 24 |
Chapter VII. | Painful Disclosures | 29 |
Chapter VIII. | Treats of Melicent | 35 |
Chapter IX. | Face to Face | 40 |
Chapter X. | Fanny's Friends | 45 |
Chapter XI. | The Self-Assumed Burden | 50 |
Chapter XII. | Severing Old Ties | 53 |
Part 2 | ||
Chapter I. | Fanny's First Night at Place-Du-Bois | 63 |
Chapter II. | "Neva To See You!" | 68 |
Chapter III. | A Talk Under the Cedar Tree | 72 |
Chapter IV. | Therese Crosses the River | 76 |
Chapter V. | One Afternoon | 81 |
Chapter VI. | One Night | 89 |
Chapter VII. | Melicent Leaves Place-Du-Bois | 95 |
Chapter VIII. | With Loose Rein | 100 |
Chapter IX. | The Reason Why | 105 |
Chapter X. | Perplexing Things | 110 |
Chapter XI. | A Social Evening | 114 |
Chapter XII. | Tidings That Sting | 121 |
Chapter XIII. | Melicent Hears the News | 125 |
Chapter XIV. | A Step Too Far | 130 |
Chapter XV. | A Fateful Solution | 134 |
Chapter XVI. | To Him Who Waits | 142 |
Chapter XVII. | Conclusion | 146 |