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Genre/Form: | novels Fiction Stories (texts) Novels Romans Romans, nouvelles, etc |
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Material Type: | Fiction, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Charles W Chesnutt; William L Andrews |
ISBN: | 0141185023 9780141185026 |
OCLC Number: | 44641665 |
Description: | xxi, 278 pages ; 20 cm. |
Contents: | The goophered grapevine -- Po' Sandy -- Mars Jeem's nightmare -- The conjurer's revenge -- Sis' Becky's pickanniny -- The gray wolf's ha'nt -- Hot-foot Hannibal -- Dave's neckliss -- The wife of his youth -- Her Virginia mammy -- The sheriff's children -- A matter of principle -- Cicely's dream -- The passing of Grandison -- Uncle Wellington's wives -- The bouquet -- The web of circumstance -- Baxter's procrustes. |
Series Title: | Penguin classics.; Penguin twentieth-century classics. |
Responsibility: | Charles W. Chesnutt ; edited and with an introduction by William L. Andrews. |
More information: |
Abstract:
Gathers stories that reflected changing racial attitudes in America, probed the psychological depths of southern blacks, and gave literary voice to the broad range of the African-American experience.
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