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Delphi Complete Works of Charles W Chesnutt (Illustrated)

Charles W. Chesnutt

Publisher: Delphi Publishing Ltd

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An African-American author, essayist and political activist, Charles W. Chesnutt is best known for his novels and short stories exploring complex issues of racial and social identity in the post-Civil War South. Today, Chesnutt is recognised as a major innovator in the tradition of Afro American fiction, who was an important contributor to the deromanticizing of post-Civil War southern literature and a singular voice among turn-of-the-century realists to depict the color line in American life. This eBook presents Chesnutt’s complete published works, with numerous illustrations, rare texts, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1)
 
* Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Charles W. Chesnutt’s life and works* Concise introductions to the novels and other texts* All the published novels, with individual contents tables* Features rare short stories and essays appearing for the first time in digital publishing* Images of how the books were first published, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts* Excellent formatting of the texts* Special chronological and alphabetical contents tables for the short stories* Easily locate short stories you want to read* Ordering of texts into chronological order and genres
 
Please note: the novels ‘A Business Career’, ‘Mandy Oxendine’ and a few other obscure works were published many years after Chesnutt’s death and so cannot appear due to copyright restrictions.
 
CONTENTS:
 
The NovelsThe House behind the Cedars (1900)The Marrow of Tradition (1901)The Colonel’s Dream (1905)
 
The Short Story CollectionsThe Conjure Woman and Other Conjure Tales (1899)The Wife of His Youth and Other Stories of the Color-Line (1899)Uncollected Stories
 
The Short StoriesList of Short Stories in Chronological OrderList of Short Stories in Alphabetical Order
 
The Non-FictionFrederick Douglass (1899)The Disfranchisement of the Negro (1903)Uncollected Essays
 
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Available since: 05/28/2021.

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