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  • The Conjure Woman
    Charles W. Chesnutt
    The Conjure Woman by Charles W. Chesnutt is a groundbreaking collection of short stories that blends folklore, satire, and social commentary to explore the lives of African Americans in the post-Civil War South. Through tales of conjuring, magic, and ancestral wisdom, Chesnutt addresses themes of race, power, morality, and cultural survival.Written in a voice that captures the ...
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  • The Conjure Woman
    Charles W. Chesnutt
    The Conjure Woman (1899) by Charles W. Chesnutt is a collection of short stories set in the post-Civil War South. The tales are narrated by Uncle Julius, a formerly enslaved man, to a Northern white couple who have moved to North Carolina. Julius tells vivid, supernatural stories involving conjure (folk magic) and slavery, often blending humor, horror, and folklore.Through thes...
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    14,16 €

  • The Marrow of Tradition
    Charles W. Chesnutt
    The Marrow of Tradition by Charles W. Chesnutt is a powerful historical novel that examines racial tensions in the American South through the lens of the 1898 Wilmington Massacre.Set in the fictional town of Wellington, North Carolina, the story follows the intertwined lives of Black and white families, especially focusing on Dr. William Miller, a Black physician, and the effec...
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    21,62 €

  • The Wife of his Youth and Other Stories of the Color Line, and Selected Essays
    Charles W. Chesnutt
    Discover the profound depth of W.E.B. Du Bois’s 'The Wife of His Youth and Other Stories of the Color Line,' a powerful collection that explores the complexities of race relations and cultural identity in 19th-century America. This remarkable volume, long out of print, has been meticulously restored by Alpha Editions for today s and future generations, making it not just a repr...
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    16,83 €

  • The House Behind the Cedars
    Charles W. Chesnutt
    In 'The House Behind the Cedars' by Charles W. Chesnutt, readers are immersed in a compelling narrative set against the backdrop of the Reconstruction era in the American South. Chesnutt, a pioneering figure in African American literature, delves deep into themes of racial identity, prejudice, and segregation. The novel follows the lives of siblings Rena and John Walden, who na...
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    14,53 €

  • The Marrow of Tradition
    Charles W. Chesnutt
    The Marrow of Tradition (1901), was based on the 1898 race riot in Wilmington, North Carolina and depicts the problems afflicting the New South, offering an invective that criticizes the nation’s panicked responses to issues of social equality and miscegenation. Set in the fictional town of Wellington, The Marrow ofTradition centers on two prominent families, the Carterets and ...
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    23,10 €

  • The Marrow of Tradition
    Charles W. Chesnutt
    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 future generations. This entire book has been retyped, redesigned, and reformatted. Since these books are not made from...
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    18,87 €

  • The Conjure Woman
    Charles W. Chesnutt
    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 change for a country only recently reunited in peace, these stories act as the uneasy meet...
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    16,72 €

  • The House Behind the Cedars
    Charles W. Chesnutt
    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 to Indiana. The book begins: Pickering’s letter bringing news of my grandfather’s death found me at Naples early in October. Jo...
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    19,91 €

  • The Marrow of Tradition
    Charles W. Chesnutt
    The Marrow Of Tradition is a novel is complex novel grounded on a historically accurate account of the Wilmington, North Carolina 'race riot' of 1898. It was written by African-American writer Charles Waddell Chesnutt.In this book, the writer narrates a fictional story of the white supremacist movement when a number of African Americans were killed and thousands of them more fr...
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    26,72 €

  • The Conjure Woman
    Charles W. Chesnutt / Charles WChesnutt
    This book has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted, retyped and designed. These books are not made of scanned copies and hence the text is clear and readable. ...
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    13,76 €

  • The Wife of His Youth and Other Stories of the Color Line
    Charles W Chesnutt / Charles W. Chestnutt
    The Wife of His Youth and Other Stories of the Color-Line (1899) is a collection of short stories by African American writer, lawyer, and political activist Charles Chesnutt. Originally published in a July 1888 edition of The Atlantic-in which, in 1887, Chesnutt became the first African American to have a story published in its pages-'The Wife of His Youth' has become the autho...
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    9,08 €

  • The Conjure Woman
    Charles W Chesnutt / Charles W. Chestnutt
    The Conjure Woman (1899) is a collection of stories by African American author, lawyer, and political activist Charles Chesnutt. 'The Goophered Grapevine,' the collection’s opening story, was originally published in The Atlantic in 1887, making Chesnutt the first African American to have a story published in the magazine. The Conjure Woman is now considered a masterpiece of Afr...
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    6,69 €

  • The Marrow of Tradition
    Charles W Chesnutt / Charles W. Chestnutt
    The Marrow of Tradition (1901) is a historical novel by African American author, lawyer, and political activist Charles Chesnutt. Based on the Wilmington Insurrection of 1898-in which a group of white supremacists rioted and overthrew the elected government of Wilmington, North Carolina, killing hundreds of African Americans and displacing thousands more-The Marrow of Tradition...
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    8,94 €

  • The House Behind the Cedars
    Charles W Chesnutt / Charles W. Chestnutt
    The House Behind the Cedars (1900) is African-American writer Charles Chesnutt’s debut novel. Inspired by his own experience as a Black man capable of passing for white-which Chesnutt consciously chose not to do-as well as by Walter Scott’s Ivanhoe, The House Behind the Cedars explores themes of identity, race, and class in the post-Civil War South.Controversial for its portray...
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    8,38 €

  • The Conjure Woman
    Charles W. Chesnutt / Charles WChesnutt
    Originally released in 1899, this seminal collection of short stories present the complexities of the Black-American experience in the Postbellum South. Chesnutt’s often subversive tales challenge popular representations of racial identity. ...
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    14,10 €

  • The Marrow of Tradition
    Charles W. Chesnutt / Charles WChesnutt
    Chesnutt’s novel, originally published in 1901, depicts the rise of the white supremacist movement after the failure of southern Reconstruction and led to the bloody tragedy of the Wilmington race riots. ...
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    18,10 €

  • The Marrow of Tradition
    Charles W. Chesnutt / Charles WChesnutt
    2019 Reprint of 1901 Edition.  The Marrow of Tradition (1901) is a historical novel set at the time and portraying a fictional account of the Wilmington Insurrection of 1898 in Wilmington, North Carolina.  This story is a fictional account of the rise of the white supremacist movement, specifically as it contributed to the "race riots" that took place in Wilmington, North Carol...
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    11,25 €

  • The Conjure Woman
    Charles W. 1858-1932 Chesnutt / Charles W1858-1932 Chesnutt
    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important ...
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    20,74 €

  • House Behind the Cedars
    Charles W. Chesnutt / Charles WChesnutt
    2015 Reprint of the 1901 edition. 'The House Behind the Cedars' is the first novel by American author Charles W. Chesnutt. The story unfolds in the southern American states of North and South Carolina a few years following the American Civil War. Rena Walden, a young woman of mixed white and black ancestry, leaves home to join her brother, who has migrated to a new city, where...
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    12,72 €

  • Paul Marchand, F.M.C.
    Charles W. Chesnutt / Charles WChesnutt
    Evoking the atmosphere of early-nineteenth-century New Orleans and the deadly aftermath of the San Domingo slave revolution, this historical novel begins as its protagonist puzzles over the seemingly prophetic dream of an aged black praline seller in the famous Place d’Armes. Paul Marchand, a free man of color living in New Orleans in the 1820s, is despised by white society for...
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    47,46 €

  • The Quarry
    Charles W. Chesnutt / Charles WChesnutt
    Was Donald Glover really what he seemed--a handsome, dedicated, and clever African-American star of the Harlem Renaissance, whose looks made him the 'quarry' of a variety of women? Or could the secrets of his birth change his destiny entirely? Focusing on the culture of Harlem in the 1920s, Charles Chesnutt’s final novel dramatizes the political and aesthetic life of the exciti...
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    70,48 €

  • The Negro Problem
    Booker T. Washington / Charles W Chesnutt / T. Thomas Fortune
    The Negro Problem is a collection of six historic essays on the state of race relations during the Reconstruction and early twentieth century. Written from the African American point of view these essays show how far race relations have progressed, and how far we have yet to go. Included are: Industrial Education for the Negro by Booker T. Washington The Talented Tenth by W...
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    11,97 €

  • The House Behind the Cedars
    Charles W. Chesnutt / Charles WChesnutt
    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 Southern obsession with race. ...
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    26,35 €

  • The Marrow of Tradition
    Charles W. Chesnutt / Charles Waddell Chesnutt / Charles WChesnutt
    Charles Chestnutt was an African American writer who wrote The Marrow of Tradition. This work of historical fiction sometimes classified as a melodrama. The plot tells the story of the formation of the white supremacist movement that preceded the race riots in Wilmington, North Carolina in 1898. Two sisters in a small town are the central characters. One sister is about to...
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    25,89 €

  • The Conjure Woman - Short Stories
    Charles W. Chesnutt / Charles Waddell Chesnutt / Charles WChesnutt
    Charles Chesnutt was an African American writer. 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 the post Civil War South. The stories in The Conjure Woman are written in a frame narrative. The outer frame is told by John a white northerner who bought a...
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    18,74 €

  • The Conjure Woman
    Charles W. Chesnutt / Charles WChesnutt
    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 commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world’s literature in affordable, high quality, modern edit...
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    27,93 €

  • The Marrow Of Tradition
    Charles W. Chesnutt / Charles WChesnutt
    The Marrow of Tradition is a novel written by Charles W. Chesnutt and published in 1901. The story is set in the fictional town of Wellington, North Carolina, during the late 19th century, and explores the themes of racism, white supremacy, and the struggle for civil rights. The novel follows the lives of several characters, including Dr. William Miller, a black physician who f...
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    34,88 €

  • The Wife Of His Youth And Other Stories Of The Color Line And Selected Essays
    Charles W. Chesnutt / Charles WChesnutt
    ''The Wife of His Youth and Other Stories of the Color Line and Selected Essays'' is a collection of short stories and essays by Charles W. Chesnutt, an African American author and activist who lived in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The book includes the title story, which tells the tale of a man who is reunited with his long-lost wife, who is now a wealthy socialite,...
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    33,44 €