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Stories, Novels, and Essays Hardcover - 2002

by Charles Chesnutt

This collection of essential writings from a pioneer of African-American literature features two stories newly restored to print. Eight essays highlight Chesnutt's prescient views on the paradoxes of race relations in America and the definition of race itself.

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  • Title Stories, Novels, and Essays
  • Author Charles Chesnutt
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Printing
  • Pages 939
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Library of America, New York
  • Date 2002-01-14
  • Features Bookmark, Dust Cover, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9781931082068 / 1931082065
  • Weight 1.35 lbs (0.61 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.1 x 5.2 x 1.2 in (20.57 x 13.21 x 3.05 cm)
  • Ages 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Library of Congress subjects African Americans
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2001038120
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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Citations

  • Library Journal, 02/01/2002, Page 138

About the author

Charles Waddell Chesnutt (1858-1932) was America's first great black novelist, the author of such groundbreaking works as The Conjure Woman, The Wife of His Youth and Other Stories of the Color-Line, and The House Behind the Cedars.

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