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The joy that kills

The setting is the world of the upper-class Creole society which dominated New Orleans in the 1870s, a world with a strict code of behavior, one of whose strongest tenets required a wife to subordinate her will and her very being to her husband.

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  • "Kate Chopin"@en
  • "GWC 1665"@en
  • "Kate Chopin : The joy that kills"@en
  • "Kate Chopin: "The joy that kills""@en

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  • "The setting is the world of the upper-class Creole society which dominated New Orleans in the 1870s, a world with a strict code of behavior, one of whose strongest tenets required a wife to subordinate her will and her very being to her husband."@en
  • "As a member of the upper class Creole society which dominated New Orleans in the 1870s, a young woman's life is dictated by the constraints of her heart ailment, her society, and her husband."
  • "Set in the world of upper class Creole society which dominated New Orleans in the 1870s, a world with a strict code of behavior one of whose strongest tenets required a wife to subordinate her will and her very being to her husband."@en
  • "Set in the world of upper class Creole society which dominated New Orleans in the 1870s, a world with a strict code of behavior one of whose strongest tenets required a wife to subordinate her will and her very being to her husband."
  • "This is the widely heralded adaptation of the short story by Kate Chopin, the late-19th-century writer whose work is only now receiving the major recognition it deserves. The setting is Kate Chopin's own world-the world of the upper-class Creole society that dominated New Orleans in the 1870s, a world with a strict code of behavior, one of whose strongest tenets required a wife to subordinate her will and her very being to her husband."@en
  • "The story unfolds in the late 19th century New Orleans. A frail southern woman, smothered and kept subordinate by her husband, finds a renewed passion for living upon learning of his apparent death. The story takes a fatal twist when her dreams are shattered by his reappearance."
  • "The world of the upper-class Creole society which dominated New Orleans in the 1870s."@en
  • "A drama about a young woman whose heart ailment keeps her prisoner in her home, at the insistence of her over-protective husband."@en
  • "The story of a woman in the upper class Creole society which dominated New Orleans in the 1870s, a world with a strict code of behavior one of whose strongest tenets required a wife to subordinate her will and her very being to her husband."
  • "The upper-class Creole world of New Orleans in 1877 is the setting for this story about a woman with a heart condition, confined to her home and oppressed by an over-protective husband. When her spouse is reported killed in a train accident, Louise sets about expanding her horizons. With his unexpected return, she succumbs to the "joy that kills.""
  • "Unfolds in late 19th century New Orleans. A frail southern woman, smothered and kept subordinant by her husband, finds a renewed passion for living upon learning of his apparent death. The story takes a fatal twist when her dreams are shattered by his reappearance."

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  • "Video recordings for the hearing impaired"@en
  • "Internet videos"@en
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Video recordings"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "DVD-Video discs"@en
  • "Educational films"@en
  • "History"@en
  • "Short films"@en
  • "Features"
  • "Drama"
  • "Drama"@en

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  • "The joy that kills"
  • "The joy that kills"@en
  • "The Joy that kills based on "The story of an hour" by Kate Chopin"
  • "The Joy that kills"
  • "The Joy that kills"@en