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  • The Wife of His Youth and Other Stories of the Color Line
    Charles W. Chesnutt / Charles W. Chestnutt / Charles WChesnutt
    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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    19,31 €

  • The Marrow of Tradition
    Charles W. Chesnutt / Charles W. Chestnutt / Charles WChesnutt
    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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    20,06 €

  • The House Behind the Cedars
    Charles W. Chesnutt / Charles W. Chestnutt / Charles WChesnutt
    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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    18,49 €

  • The Conjure Woman
    Charles W. Chesnutt / Charles W. Chestnutt / Charles WChesnutt
    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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    17,01 €

  • 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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    17,30 €

  • 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 €

  • 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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    118,04 €

  • 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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    170,11 €

  • 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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    70,48 €

  • 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 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 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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    17,18 €

  • 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 €