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Title: Désirée's Baby Title Record # 93694
Author: Kate Chopin
Date: 1893-00-00
Type: SHORTFICTION [non-genre]
Length: short story
Language: English
Note: A Gothic but non-speculative story.
Synopsis: Désirée is a foundling baby in Antebellum Louisiana. When she grows up she is beautiful and gentle and a French gentleman marries her in spite of her unknown parentage. The marriage is thrown into crisis when Désirée's first baby is darker-skinned than herself.
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Publications

Title Date Author/Editor Publisher/Pub. Series ISBN/Catalog ID Price Pages Format Type Cover Artist Verif
Bayou Folk 1894-00-00 Kate Chopin Houghton, Mifflin and Company     313
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll  
Isaac Asimov Presents the Best Horror and Supernatural of the 19th Century 1983-05-00 ed. Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg, Charles G. Waugh Beaufort Books 0-8253-0128-9
$16.95?$: US dollar
368
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth  
A Treasury of American Horror Stories 1985-00-00 ed. Martin H. Greenberg, Frank McSherry, Jr., Charles G. Waugh Bonanza Books / Crown Publishers 0-517-48075-1
$10.00?$: US dollar
xii+
670
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth Hector Garrido  
American Gothic 1997-09-00 ed. Terri Hardin, Elizabeth Terry Barnes & Noble Books 0-7607-0349-3
$7.98?$: US dollar
xiv+
334
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth Duncan Hannah  
American Gothic: An Anthology 1787 - 1916 1999-00-00 ed. Charles L. Crow Blackwell Publishers (Blackwell Anthologies) 0-631-20652-3   ix+
481
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.
anth Ralph Blakelock  
American Gothic: An Anthology 1787 - 1916 1999-00-00 ed. Charles L. Crow Blackwell Publishers (Blackwell Anthologies) 0-631-20651-5   ix+
481
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth Ralph Blakelock  
The Story and Its Writer: An Introduction to Short Fiction 2011-00-00 ed. Ann Charters Bedford Books of St. Martin's Press 978-0-312-59624-8   xx+
1168
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.
anth Helen Berggruen Checkmark
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