Groundbreaking author Kate Chopin was known for her innovative portraits of nineteenth-century heroines facing the challenges of life under strictly constrained gender roles. At Fault is a richly detailed historical romance set on a Louisiana...
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Groundbreaking author Kate Chopin was known for her innovative portraits of nineteenth-century heroines facing the challenges of life under strictly constrained gender roles. At Fault is a richly detailed historical romance set on a Louisiana plantation that delves deftly into the tangled web woven by a trio of star-crossed lovers whose lives have been rent asunder by misbegotten passion
Title; Contents; 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 ThingsXI - 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;
