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  • The Colonel’s Dream
    Charles Waddell Chesnutt
    In this novel, Charles Waddell Chesnutt explores race relations in the American South. The story follows the life of Colonel French, a wealthy white landowner who dreams of creating a utopian society where black and white people can live together in harmony. With its nuanced characters and thought-provoking themes, ’The Colonel’s Dream’ is a powerful work of fiction.This work h...
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    25,06 €

  • The Critic; Volume 31
    Carolyn Shipman / Charles Waddell Chesnutt / Jeannette Leonard Gilder
    A collection of literary criticism from four of the most influential critics of the 19th century. Includes essays on Shakespeare, Poe, and other great writers of the time. This book is a fascinating look at the intellectual culture of the era.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.Th...
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    42,23 €

  • The Colonel’s Dream
    Charles Waddell Chesnutt
    In this novel, Charles Waddell Chesnutt explores race relations in the American South. The story follows the life of Colonel French, a wealthy white landowner who dreams of creating a utopian society where black and white people can live together in harmony. With its nuanced characters and thought-provoking themes, ’The Colonel’s Dream’ is a powerful work of fiction.This work h...
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    36,40 €

  • Tales of Conjure and The Color Line
    By: Charles Waddell Chesnutt
    A pioneer in the development of fiction giving voice to the African-American experience, Charles Waddell Chesnutt (1858-1932) found literary success with his 'conjure tales' - vignettes from black folk life, recounted partially in the vernacular - and later with his 'stories of the color line,' which addressed more directly the problems of race in America.This outstanding, affo...
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    14,14 €

  • Tales of Conjure and The Color Line
    Charles Waddell Chesnutt
    A pioneer in the development of fiction giving voice to the African-American experience, Charles Waddell Chesnutt (1858-1932) found literary success with his 'conjure tales' - vignettes from black folk life, recounted partially in the vernacular - and later with his 'stories of the color line,' which addressed more directly the problems of race in America.This outstanding, affo...
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    27,16 €

  • Frederick Douglass
    Charles Waddell 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 is in the 'public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the wor...
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    34,69 €

  • Frederick Douglass
    Charles Waddell 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 is in the 'public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the wor...
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    21,06 €

  • The House Behind the Cedars
    Charles Waddell 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 is in the 'public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the wor...
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    35,64 €

  • The Colonel’s Dream
    Charles Waddell 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 is in the 'public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the wor...
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    36,59 €

  • The Colonel’s Dream
    Charles Waddell 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 is in the 'public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the wor...
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    25,26 €

  • The House Behind the Cedars
    Charles Waddell 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 is in the 'public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the wor...
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    23,16 €

  • The Conjure Woman; RBC Wilmer
    Charles W(Charles Waddell) Chesnutt / Charles W. (Charles Waddell) 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 is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work....
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    20,73 €

  • The Critic; Volume 18
    Charles Waddell 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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    24,67 €

  • The Critic; Volume 38
    Carolyn Shipman / Charles Waddell Chesnutt / Jeannette Leonard Gilder
    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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    41,83 €

  • The Critic; Volume 21
    Carolyn Shipman / Charles Waddell 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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    25,66 €

  • The Critic, Volume 49, Issues 1-3
    Carolyn Shipman / Charles Waddell Chesnutt / Joseph Benson Gilder
    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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    23,92 €

  • The Marrow of Tradition
    Charles Waddell Chesnutt / Charles WChesnutt
    'The Marrow of Tradition' is a 1901 historical novel written by the African-American author Charles W. Chesnutt. Set in 1898, it presents a fictionalised version of events related to the Wilmington Insurrection in Wilmington, a riot enacted by white supremacists in North Carolina. Charles Waddell Chesnutt (1858 –1932) was an African-American essayist, lawyer, author, and politi...
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    26,45 €

  • Frederick Douglass - A Biography
    Charles Waddell Chesnutt / Charles WChesnutt
    Frederick Douglass (1818–1895) was an American escaped slave who became a prominent activist, author, and public speaker who garnered significant acclaim for his 1845 autobiography. A leading figure in the abolitionist movement, he fought for the end of slavery until the 1862 Emancipation Proclamation and continued to vehemently fight for human rights until his death. This volu...
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    18,01 €

  • The Conjure Woman and Other Conjure Tales
    Charles Waddell Chesnutt
    Charles W. Chesnutt (1858-1932) 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 slowly and carefully. His characters deal with difficult issues of misceg...
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    9,78 €

  • The Wife of his Youth and Other Stories
    Charles Waddell Chesnutt
    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 Wife of his Youth is a collection of nine stories in which Chesnutt tells the African-American’s search for identity in the tumultuous period from Reconstruction to the t...
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    24,92 €

  • The Marrow of Tradition
    Charles Waddell Chesnutt
    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 have...
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    25,89 €

  • The Conjure Woman
    Charles Waddell Chesnutt
    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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    22,20 €

  • 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 €

  • A Business Career
    Charles Waddell Chesnutt
    A Business Careerby Charles W. Chesnutt, edited by Matthew Wilson and Marjan A. van Schaik.Introduction by Matthew Wilson.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 ...
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    50,18 €

  • Evelyn’s Husband
    Charles Waddell Chesnutt
    Evelyn’s Husband by Charles W. Chesnutt, edited by Matthew Wilson and Marjan A. van Schaik.Introduction by Matthew Wilson.The critique of white male society that Charles W. Chesnutt launched in A Marrow of Tradition continues in Evelyn’s Husband, one of six manuscripts left unpublished when this highly regarded African American innovator died.Set in Boston society, on a deserte...
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    49,88 €

  • The Colonel’s Dream
    Charles Waddell Chesnutt
    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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    33,56 €

  • The House Behind the Cedars
    Charles Waddell Chesnutt
    The House Behind The Cedars is a novel by Charles W. Chesnutt, first published in 1900. The story takes place in the post-Civil War South and follows the lives of two mixed-race siblings, John and Rena Walden. John, who is light-skinned enough to pass as white, leaves his hometown in North Carolina to pursue a career as a lawyer in a nearby city, where he meets and falls in lov...
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    30,71 €

  • Frederick Douglass
    Charles Waddell Chesnutt
    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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    13,02 €

  • Paul Marchand F.M.C.
    Charles Waddell Chesnutt
    Never before published, this novel written in the 1920s disputes prevailing attitudes on racial character and identity. After living for many years in France, the wealthy and sophisticated Paul Marchand, a Free Man of Color, returns to his home in New Orleans. He discovers through a will that he is white and is now head of a prosperous and influential family. Since mixed-race...
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    50,40 €