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  • The House Behind the Cedars (Cram Edition)
    Charles W. (Charles Waddell) Chesnutt
    This XpressRead Cram Edition of The House Behind the Cedars pairs the complete original text with carefully prepared study materials, designed for deeper engagement with this classic.Charles W. Chesnutt’s 'The House Behind the Cedars' explores themes of racial identity and passing in the post-Reconstruction South. Set in North Carolina, this literary work delves into the comple...
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    25,12 €

  • The Conjure Woman (Cram Edition)
    Charles W. (Charles Waddell) Chesnutt
    This XpressRead Cram Edition of The Conjure Woman pairs the complete original text with carefully prepared study materials, designed for deeper engagement with this classic.Venture into the heart of the American South with Charles W. Chesnutt’s 'The Conjure Woman,' a collection of captivating short stories steeped in African American folklore. Originally published in 1899, thes...
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    20,97 €

  • The Colonel’s Dream
    Charles W. (Charles Waddell) Chesnutt
    This XpressRead Cram Edition of The Colonel’s Dream pairs the complete original text with carefully prepared study materials, designed for deeper engagement with this classic.Charles W. Chesnutt’s 'The Colonel’s Dream' offers a poignant exploration of Southern life in the Reconstruction Era. This powerful work delves into the challenges faced by Civil War veterans returning to ...
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    27,09 €

  • The Wife Of His Youth And Other Stories Of The Color Line
    Charles W. Chesnutt
    The Wife of His Youth and Other Stories of the Color Line, and Selected Essays examines social divisions built around race, status, and appearance through a series of reflective narratives and argumentative pieces. The collection presents situations where personal history, ancestry, and outward identity influence opportunity, relationships, and moral choice. The stories focus o...
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    14,48 €

  • The Conjure Woman
    Charles W. Chesnutt
    The conjure woman presents a layered exploration of memory, power, and survival shaped through storytelling rooted in lived experience. The narrative weaves together accounts of labor, loss, and endurance, using folklore and supernatural elements as tools for revealing hidden truths. Rather than offering nostalgia, the stories expose the emotional and physical costs of oppressi...
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    13,07 €

  • Frederick Douglass (Esprios Classics)
    Charles W. Chesnutt
    Charles Waddell Chesnutt (June 20, 1858 - November 15, 1932) was an American author, essayist, political activist and lawyer, best known for his novels and short stories exploring complex issues of racial and social identity in the post-Civil War South. Two of his books were adapted as silent films in 1926 and 1927 by the African-American director and producer Oscar Micheaux. F...
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    26,03 €

  • The Colonel’s Dream (Esprios Classics)
    Charles W. Chesnutt
    Charles Waddell Chesnutt (June 20, 1858 - November 15, 1932) was an American author, essayist, political activist and lawyer, best known for his novels and short stories exploring complex issues of racial and social identity in the post-Civil War South. Two of his books were adapted as silent films in 1926 and 1927 by the African-American director and producer Oscar Micheaux. F...
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    38,60 €

  • 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
    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 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 €

  • 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 €

  • 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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    68,64 €

  • 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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    47,00 €

  • 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 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 €