A Pair of Silk Stockings, Kate Chopin
A Pair of Silk Stockings, Kate Chopin
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A Pair of Silk Stockings

Author: Kate Chopin

Narrator: Cathy Dobson

Unabridged: 12 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/13/2017

Synopsis

Kate Chopin (1850 - 1904) was a U.S. author of French and Irish descent famous for her short stories and novels set in Louisiana.

"A Pair of Silk Stockings" is the tale of a frazzled housewife and mother, Mrs. Sommers, who has come into a small fortune of $15. She plans selflessly to spend it on clothes and shoes for her children, but when she sets out on her shopping trip she is seduced by a pair of beautiful soft silk stockings and embarks on an intoxicating spending spree for her own personal pleasure.

About Kate Chopin

American author Kate Chopin (1850-1904) wrote two novels and about a hundred short stories in the 1890s. Most of her fiction is set in Louisiana and most of her best-known work focuses on the lives of sensitive, intelligent women.

Her short stories were well received in her own time and were published by some of America's most prestigious magazines-Vogue, the Atlantic Monthly, Harper's Young People, Youth's Companion, and the Century. A few stories were syndicated by the American Press Association. Her stories also appeared in her two published anthologies, Bayou Folk and A Night in Acadie, both of which received good reviews from critics across the country. About a third of her stories are children's stories-those published in or submitted to children's magazines or those similar in subject or theme to those that were. By the late 1890s, she was well known among American readers of magazine fiction.

Her early novel At Fault had not been much noticed by the public, but The Awakening was widely condemned. Critics called it morbid, vulgar, and disagreeable. Willa Cather, who would become a well-known twentieth-century American author, labeled it trite and sordid. Chopin's third anthology of stories, to have been called A Vocation and a Voice, was for unknown reasons cancelled by the publisher and did not appear as a separate volume until 1991.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Burcu on December 08, 2021

Buçuklu yıldız verme güncellemesi bekliyorum Goodreads'ten hâlâ. Zira Bir Çift İpek Çorap benim için 3,5 yıldızdır aslında. Derlemede yer alan her bir öykü kendine özgü bir dokuya sahipti bana kalırsa. Aynı coğrafyanın insanlarına bakarken farklı anlatıcıların seslerine yer veriyordu. Bunu sadelikle......more

Goodreads review by Tom on October 04, 2021

Désirée's Baby - 5 Stars Madame Célestin's Divorce - 4 Stars At the 'Cadian Ball - 3 Stars A Gentleman of the Bayou Têche - 5 Stars A Night in Acadie - 3.5 Stars Azélie - 3.5 Stars A Respectable Woman - 4 Stars The Dream of an Hour - 5 Stars A Pair of Silk Stockings - 4 Stars......more

Goodreads review by Bootsie on October 22, 2008

Normally I don't enjoy much from feminist culture or anything with too much purple language and girly stuff but some things are genuinely good. I didn't like all the stories, out of all of them I only liked two (the one about the guy who liked that insensitive ditz, and the story of the title). I ha......more

Goodreads review by Lisa on February 09, 2010

a short story that really captures the plight of the over-worked, over-stressed, depressed mother who wanted a bit more out of life than what she's gotten. i read this in my high school humanities class when i was supposed to be studying and it really made me realize that i did not want to have a ty......more

Goodreads review by Megan on August 02, 2021

There are several stories in this selection that are quite thought provoking regarding a woman's place in society at the turn of the 19th century... but a few that I couldn't even read due to the heavy slave/Bayou accent the author insisted on using for the non-white characters.......more

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