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  • A Business Career by Chesnutt, Charles W.
    Charles W. Chesnutt

    A Business Career

    Never before published, A Business Career is the story of Stella Merwin, a white woman entering the working-class world to discover the truth behind her upper-class father's financial failure. A "New Woman" of the 1890s, Stella joins a stenographer's office and uncovers a life-altering...
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  • An Exemplary Citizen: Letters of Charles W. Chesnutt, 1906-1932 by Chesnutt, Charles W.
    Charles W. Chesnutt

    An Exemplary Citizen: Letters of Charles W. Chesnutt, 1906-1932

    This book collects the letters written between 1906 and 1932 by novelist and civil rights activist Charles W. Chesnutt (1858-1932). Between 1885 and 1905, this pioneer in the African-American literary tradition published three novels, two books of short stories, a biography of Frederick Douglass,...
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  • Conjure Tales and Stories of the Color Line by Chesnutt, Charles W.
    Charles W. Chesnutt

    Conjure Tales and Stories of the Color Line

    Unlike the popular Uncle Remus stories of Joel Chandler Harris, Charles W. Chesnutt's tales probe psychological depths in black people unheard of before in Southern regional writing. They also expose the anguish of mixed-race men and women and the consequences of racial hatred, mob...
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  • Conjure Tales and Stories of the Color Line by Chesnutt, Charles
    Charles W. Chesnutt

    Conjure Tales and Stories of the Color Line

    Unlike the popular "Uncle Remus" stories of Joel Chandler Harris, Charles W. Chesnutt's tales probe psychological depths in black people unheard of before in Southern regional writing. They also expose the anguish of mixed-race men and women and the consequences of racial hatred, mob...
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  • Paul Marchand, F. M. C. by Chesnutt, Charles W.
    Charles W. Chesnutt

    Paul Marchand, F. M. C.

    Chesnutt wrote this novel at the beginning of the Harlem Renaissance, but set it in a time and place favored by George Washington Cable. Published now for the first time, Paul Marchand, F. M. C. examines the system of race and caste in nineteenth-century...
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  • The Colonel's Dream by Chesnutt, Charles W.
    Charles W. Chesnutt

    The Colonel's Dream

    Revolutionary in both its storyline and its storytelling, The Colonel's Dream was one of the most progressive books of its time when it was first published in 1905. Few authors of African descent created white protagonists, but Charles Chesnutt did just that, exploring the...
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  • The Colonel's Dream by Chesnutt, Charles W.
    Charles W. Chesnutt

    The Colonel's Dream

    The Colonel's Dream By Charles W. ChesnuttAuthor: Charles W. ChesnuttISBN-10: 1547215143ISBN-13: 9781547215140Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/11/2017Pages: 136Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.42lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.29d
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  • The Colonel's Dream by Chesnutt, Charles W.
    Charles W. Chesnutt

    The Colonel's Dream

    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our...
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  • The Colonelｴs Dream by Chesnutt, Charles W.
    Charles W. Chesnutt

    The Colonelｴs Dream

    Reproduction of the original: The Colonel s Dream by Charles W. ChesnuttAuthor: Charles W. ChesnuttISBN-10: 3734024951ISBN-13: 9783734024955Publisher: Outlook VerlagLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/20/2018Pages: 206Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.04lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.63d
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  • The Conjure Woman by Chesnutt, Charles W.
    Charles W. Chesnutt

    The Conjure Woman

    The stories in The Conjure Woman were Charles W. Chesnutt's first great literary success, and since their initial publication in 1899 they have come to be seen as some of the most remarkable works of African American literature from the Emancipation through the Harlem...
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  • The Conjure Woman by Chesnutt, Charles W.
    Charles W. Chesnutt

    The Conjure Woman

    Charles W. Chesnutt was a prominent African-American writer, lawyer, and political activist. Chesnutt was a prolific author and his books were notable for exploring the racial and social issues in the American South after the Civil War. The Conjure Woman, published in 1899, is...
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  • The Conjure Woman by Chesnutt, Charles W.
    Charles W. Chesnutt

    The Conjure Woman

    The Conjure Woman is a collection of short stories by African-American fiction writer, essayist, and activist Charles W. Chesnutt. First published in 1899, it is considered a seminal work of African-American literature. Written in the late nineteenth century, a time of enormous growth and...
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  • The Conjure Woman & Other Conjure Tales by Chesnutt, Charles W.
    Charles W. Chesnutt

    The Conjure Woman & Other Conjure Tales

    The stories in The Conjure Woman were Charles W. Chesnutt's first great literary success, and since their initial publication in 1899 they have come to be seen as some of the most remarkable works of African American literature from the Emancipation through the Harlem...
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  • The Conjure Woman (New Edition) by Chesnutt, Charles W.
    Charles W. Chesnutt

    The Conjure Woman (New Edition)

    An early slave narrative, a skilfully woven satire on the stereotypes of plantation life and the apparently beneficent white owner. Told as a series of gentle fables, in the style of Aesop. Featuring a new introduction for this new edition, The Conjure Woman is...
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  • The conjure woman .by Charles W. Chesnutt (Original Version) by Chesnutt, Charles W.
    Charles W. Chesnutt

    The conjure woman .by Charles W. Chesnutt (Original Version)

    The Conjure Woman, as first published by Houghton Mifflin, was not wholly Chesnutt's creation but a work shaped and selected by his editors. This edition reassembles for the first time all of Chesnutt's work in the conjure tale genre, the entire imaginative feat of...
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  • The Conjure Woman and Other Conjure Tales by Chesnutt, Charles W.
    Charles W. Chesnutt

    The Conjure Woman and Other Conjure Tales

    The stories in The Conjure Woman were Charles W. Chesnutt's first great literary success, and since their initial publication in 1899 they have come to be seen as some of the most remarkable works of African American literature from the Emancipation through the Harlem...
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  • The House Behind the Cedars by Chesnutt, Charles W.
    Charles W. Chesnutt

    The House Behind the Cedars

    The House Behind the Cedars, which many consider Charles Chesnutt's finest novel, tells of John and Lena Walden, mulatto siblings who pass for white in the postbellum American South. The drama that unfolds as they travel between black and white worlds constitutes a riveting...
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  • The House Behind the Cedars by Chesnutt, Charles W.
    Charles W. Chesnutt

    The House Behind the Cedars

    The House Behind the Cedars By Charles W. ChesnuttAuthor: Charles W. ChesnuttISBN-10: 1979006598ISBN-13: 9781979006590Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/09/2017Pages: 110Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.35lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.23d
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  • The House Behind the Cedars by Chesnutt, Charles W.
    Charles W. Chesnutt

    The House Behind the Cedars

    Charles Chesnutt was perhaps the most influential African-American fiction writer during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The House Behind the Cedars, his dramatic masterpiece, was crafted during the tumultuous post-Civil War era in the South, when many in white society feared the...
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  • The House Behind the Cedars by Chesnutt, Charles W.
    Charles W. Chesnutt

    The House Behind the Cedars

    Charles W. Chesnutt was an early pioneer is writing about African American folklore and racial identity. He wrote about lynchings, segregation and the hypocrisy of American values in post Civil War South. The House Behind the Cedars was published in 1900. Chestnutt explores the...
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  • The House Behind the Cedars by Chesnutt, Charles W.
    Charles W. Chesnutt

    The House Behind the Cedars

    An early masterwork among American literary treatments of miscegenation, Chesnutt's story is of two young African Americans who decide to pass for white in order to claim their share of the American dream. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher...
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  • The House Behind the Cedars by Chesnutt, Charles W.
    Charles W. Chesnutt

    The House Behind the Cedars

    In The House Behind the Cedars, a novel about two African Americans who pass for white in post-Civil War North Carolina, Charles W. Chesnutt introduces a striking new hero in American fiction of the color line: John Walden, a young black man who decides...
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  • The House Behind the Cedars by Chesnutt, Charles W.
    Charles W. Chesnutt

    The House Behind the Cedars

    In The House Behind the Cedars, a novel about two African Americans who pass for white in post-Civil War North Carolina, Charles W. Chesnutt introduces a striking new hero in American fiction of the color line: John Walden, a young black man who decides...
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  • The House Behind the Cedars by Chesnutt, Charles W.
    Charles W. Chesnutt

    The House Behind the Cedars

    The House of a Thousand Candles is a famous work by Meredith Nicholson. Nicholson lived and traveled extensively in Indiana and it was a rich resource for his writing. The House of a Thousand Candles provides readers with the view of an outsider coming...
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  • The house behind the cedars .NOVEL by Charles W. Chesnutt (Classics) by Chesnutt, Charles W.
    Charles W. Chesnutt

    The house behind the cedars .NOVEL by Charles W. Chesnutt (Classics)

    The House Behind the Cedars is the first novel by American author Charles W. Chesnutt. It was published in 1900 by Houghton, Mifflin and Company. The story occurs in the southern American states of North and South Carolina a few years following the American...
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  • The house behind the cedars, By Charles W. Chesnutt: The House Behind the Cedars is the first novel by American author Charles W. Chesnutt. by Chesnutt, Charles W.
    Charles W. Chesnutt

    The house behind the cedars, By Charles W. Chesnutt: The House Behind the Cedars is the first novel by American author Charles W. Chesnutt.

    The House Behind the Cedars is the first novel by American author Charles W. Chesnutt. It was published in 1900 by Houghton, Mifflin and Company. The story occurs in the southern American states of North and South Carolina a few years following the American...
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  • The House Behind the Cedars: in large print by Chesnutt, Charles W.
    Charles W. Chesnutt

    The House Behind the Cedars: in large print

    Author: Charles W. ChesnuttISBN-10: 3368252488ISBN-13: 9783368252489Publisher: Outlook VerlagLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/20/2022Pages: 270Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.79lbsSize: 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.61d
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  • The House Behind the Cedars: in large print by Chesnutt, Charles W.
    Charles W. Chesnutt

    The House Behind the Cedars: in large print

    Author: Charles W. ChesnuttISBN-10: 3368252496ISBN-13: 9783368252496Publisher: Outlook VerlagLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/20/2022Pages: 270Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.25lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.75d
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  • The Journals of Charles W. Chesnutt by Chesnutt, Charles W.
    Charles W. Chesnutt

    The Journals of Charles W. Chesnutt

    Born on the eve of the Civil War, Charles W. Chesnutt grew up in Fayetteville, North Carolina, a county seat of four or five thousand people, a once-bustling commercial center slipping into postwar decline. Poor, black, and determined to outstrip his modest beginnings and...
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  • The Marrow of Tradition by Chesnutt, Charles W.
    Charles W. Chesnutt

    The Marrow of Tradition

    This story is a fictional account of the rise of the white supremacist movement, specifically as it contributed to what was originally referred to as the "race riots" that took place in Wilmington, North Carolina in 1898. Critics argue over what would be a...
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  • The Marrow of Tradition by Chesnutt, Charles W.
    Charles W. Chesnutt

    The Marrow of Tradition

    Part of Belt's Revivals Series and an undisputed classic of African American literature. With a new introduction by Wiley Cash (When Ghosts Come Home).On November 10, 1898, a mob of 400 people rampaged through the streets of Wilmington, North Carolina, killing as many as...
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  • The Marrow of Tradition by Chesnutt, Charles W.
    Charles W. Chesnutt

    The Marrow of Tradition

    In this landmark tale, one of the great American novelists exposed the harsh dimensions of Southern prejudice during post-Reconstruction era. Charles W. Chesnutt traces the intertwined lives of two prominent families: one headed by a newspaper editor and flagrant white supremacist; the other by...
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  • The Marrow of Tradition by Chesnutt, Charles W.
    Charles W. Chesnutt

    The Marrow of Tradition

    Charles W. Chesnutt was an author, essayist, and political activist whose works addressed the complex issues of racial and social identity at the turn of the century. Chesnutt's early works explored political issues somewhat indirectly, with the intention of changing the attitudes of Caucasians...
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  • The Marrow of Tradition by Chesnutt, Charles W.
    Charles W. Chesnutt

    The Marrow of Tradition

    Reproduction of the original: The Marrow of Tradition by Charles W. ChesnuttAuthor: Charles W. ChesnuttISBN-10: 3734018838ISBN-13: 9783734018831Publisher: Outlook VerlagLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/20/2018Pages: 222Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.09lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.63d
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  • The Marrow of Tradition by W. Chesnutt, Charles
    Charles W. Chesnutt

    The Marrow of Tradition

    The Marrow of Tradition, has been regarded as significant work throughout human history, and in order to ensure that this work is never lost, we have taken steps to ensure its preservation by republishing this book in a contemporary format for both current and...
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  • The Marrow of Tradition (1901). By: Charles W. Chesnutt: Historical novel by Chesnutt, Charles W.
    Charles W. Chesnutt

    The Marrow of Tradition (1901). By: Charles W. Chesnutt: Historical novel

    The Marrow of Tradition (1901) is a historical novel by the African-American author Charles W. Chesnutt, set at the time and portraying a fictional account of the Wilmington Insurrection of 1898 in Wilmington, North Carolina.Plot summary: Set in the fictional town of Wellington, The...
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  • The marrow of tradition, By Charles W. Chesnutt (Historical novel): The Marrow of Tradition (1901) is a historical novel by the African-American autho by Chesnutt, Charles W.
    Charles W. Chesnutt

    The marrow of tradition, By Charles W. Chesnutt (Historical novel): The Marrow of Tradition (1901) is a historical novel by the African-American autho

    The Marrow of Tradition (1901) is a historical novel by the African-American author Charles Chesnutt, set at the time and portraying a fictional account of the Wilmington Insurrection of 1898 in Wilmington, North Carolina. Plot summary--Set in the fictional town of Wellington, The Marrow...
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  • The Marrow of Tradition by Chesnutt, Charles W.
    Charles W. Chesnutt

    The Marrow of Tradition: A Norton Critical Edition

    Inspired by the 1898 Wilmington Riot and the eyewitness accounts of Charles W. Chesnutt's own family, Chesnutt's The Marrow of Tradition captures the astonishing moment in American history when a violent coup d'騁at resulted in the subversion of a free and democratic election. The...
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  • The Negro Problem by Chesnutt, Charles W.
    Charles W. Chesnutt

    The Negro Problem

    The necessity for the race's learning the difference between being worked and working. He would not confine the Negro to industrial life, but believes that the very best service which any one can render to what is called the "higher education" is to teach...
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  • The Sheriff's Children by Chesnutt, Charles Waddell
    Charles W. Chesnutt

    The Sheriff's Children

    The Sheriff's Children is a novel by Charles W. Chesnutt, first published in 1897. The story is set in the post-Civil War South and centers around the lives of two children, Rena and Frank, who are the mixed-race offspring of a white sheriff and...
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  • The Wife of His Youth (1899), by Charles W. Chesnutt by Chesnutt, Charles W.
    Charles W. Chesnutt

    The Wife of His Youth (1899), by Charles W. Chesnutt

    The Wife of His Youth" is a short story by American author Charles W. Chesnutt, first published in July 1898. It later served as the title story of the collection The Wife of His Youth and Other Stories of the Color-Line. That book was...
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  • The Wife of His Youth and Other Stories of the Color Line, and Selected Essays by Chesnutt, Charles W.
    Charles W. Chesnutt

    The Wife of His Youth and Other Stories of the Color Line, and Selected Essays

    This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic, timeless works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable price, in an attractive volume so that everyone can enjoy them.Author: Charles W. ChesnuttISBN-10: 1500247596ISBN-13: 9781500247591Publisher: Createspace...
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  • The wife of his youth, and other stories of the color line.by Charles W. Chesnut by Chesnutt, Charles W.
    Charles W. Chesnutt

    The wife of his youth, and other stories of the color line.by Charles W. Chesnut

    The Wife of His Youth" is a short story by American author Charles W. Chesnutt, first published in July 1898. It later served as the title story of the collection The Wife of His Youth and Other Stories of the Color-Line. That book was...
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