Author: CHESNUTT, Charles W.
Title: Stories, Novels, & Essays: The Conjure Woman, the Wife of His Youth and Other Stories of the Color Line, the House Behind the Cedars, the Marrow of Tradition, Uncollected Stories, Selected Essays
Description: New York, The Library of America, 2002. Hardcover. 8vo. Green cloth with gilt spine lettering, slipcase. x, 939pp. Decorative endpapers, sewn-in green silk page marker. Fine/fine. Tight and pristine first edition of this 131st volume in the outstanding "Library of America" series. Chesnutt (1858-1932) was apparently 7/8ths white, but identified himself as black, and his fiction writings often revolve around racial issues in the post-Civil War south. .

Keywords: American Literature Black History


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