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Violets and Other Tales

Alice Dunbar Nelson

Publisher: Good Press

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Summary

"Violets and Other Tales" is a collection of essays, short stories, and poems, by Alice Dunbar-Nelson, which were written with a motive to inculcate morals and books teaching lessons.
Table of Contents:
Violets
Three Thoughts
The Woman
Ten Minutes' Musing
A Plaint
In Unconsciousness
Titee
Anarchy Alley
Impressions
Salammbo
Legend of the Newspaper
A Carnival Jangle
Paul to Virginia (Fin de Siecle)
The Maiden's Dream
In Memoriam
A Story of Vengeance
At Bay St. Louis
New Year's Day
Unknown Life of Jesus Christ
In Our Neighborhood
Little Miss Sophie
Little Miss Sophie
If I Had Known!
Chalmette
At Eventide
The Idler
Love and the Butterfly
The Bee-Man
Amid the Roses
Available since: 11/20/2019.
Print length: 63 pages.

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