At Fault
by Kate Chopin
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About This Book
Thérèse Lafirme, a beautiful and resourceful Creole woman, is widowed at age thirty-two and left alone to run her Louisiana plantation. When Thérèse 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 tumultuous path that involves Hosmer's former wife, Fanny. At Fault is both romantic and filled with stark realism-a love story that expands to address the complex problem of balancing personal happiness and social duty-set ...
Chapters (30)
- At Fault
- PART I I The Mistress of Place-du-Bois.
- II At the Mill.
- III In the Pirogue.
- IV A Small Interruption.
- V In the Pine Woods.
- VI Melicent Talks.
- VII Painful Disclosures.
- VIII Treats of Melicent.
- IX Face to Face.
- X Fanny’s Friends.
- XI The Self-Assumed Burden.
- XII Severing Old Ties.
- PART II I Fanny’s First Night at Place-du-Bois.
- II “Neva to See You!”
- III A Talk Under the Cedar Tree.
- IV Thérèse Crosses the River.
- V One Afternoon.
- VI One Night.
- VII Melicent Leaves Place-du-Bois.
- VIII With Loose Rein.
- IX The Reason Why.
- X Perplexing Things.
- XI A Social Evening.
- XII Tidings That Sting.
- XIII Melicent Hears the News.
- XIV A Step Too Far.
- XV A Fateful Solution.
- XVI To Him Who Waits.
- XVII Conclusion.
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