Edna Pontellier has everything that a woman and mother should want - two wonderful sons, a husband, and good financial fortune. But still, she feels like something may be missing. While vacationing with her family, she meets a young man who shows affection and opens her mind to adventure and freedom. Edna’s desire for freedom and independence begins to fester in her heart, and she finds that she is increasingly disenchanted with the responsibilities...

Desiree's baby-Madame Celestins's divorce-At the 'Cadian Ball-A gentleman of Bayou Teche-A night in Acadie-Azelie-A respectable woman-The dream of an hour-A pair of silk stockings.

Edna Pontellier, a Victorian-era wife and mother is awakened to the full force on her desire for love and freedom when she becomes enamored with Robert LeBrun, a young man she meets while on vacation.

Set in New Orleans and the Southern Louisiana coast at the end of the nineteenth century, the plot centers on Edna Pontellier and her struggle to reconcile her increasingly unorthodox views on femininity and motherhood with the prevailing social attitudes of the turn-of-the-century American South.

Collects twenty short horror stories published between 1816 and 1914 that have been overshadowed by the works of Edgar Allen Poe, including Bram Stoker's "The Squaw" and L.T. Meade's "The Woman with the Hood.".