Chesnutt, Charles W. (Charles Waddell) 1858-1932

The marrow of tradition by Charles W Chesnutt( Book )

111 editions published between 1901 and 2015 in English and French and held by 2,372 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Novel of Southern life in a stirring tale of racial confrontation in a reconstructionist Southern town. With a memorable cast of characters, including the imperious newspaperman Major Carteret, and Dr. Miller, a young Negro physician married to Mrs. Carteret's unacknowledged octoroon half-sister

The house behind the cedars by Charles W Chesnutt( Book )

92 editions published between 1900 and 2015 in English and held by 1,925 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

"The House Behind the Cedars tells of John and Lena Walden, mulatto siblings who pass for white in the postbellum American South. The drama that unfolds as they travel between black and white worlds constitutes a riveting portrait of the shifting and intractable nature of race in American life. This edition revitalizes a much-neglected masterpiece by one of our most important African-American writers."--Jacket

The conjure woman by Charles W Chesnutt( Book )

96 editions published between 1899 and 2017 in 4 languages and held by 1,851 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

"The Conjure Woman is the title of an 1899 collection of seven stories by Charles W. Chesnutt, an important African American writer from the post-Civil War South; it was his first book. The stories deal with the racial issues facing the South after the war"--Cover

The wife of his youth, and other stories of the color line by Charles W Chesnutt( Book )

65 editions published between 1899 and 2014 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,493 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Represents a 19th century American novel by an African American which is important to the study of American folklore, culture, anad literary history

Stories, novels & essays : the conjure woman ; The wife of his youth and other stories of the color line ; The house behind the cedars ; The marrow of tradition ; Uncollected stories ; Selected essays by Charles W Chesnutt( Book )

17 editions published between 1993 and 2002 in English and held by 1,412 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Publisher description: Charles W. Chesnutt broke new ground in American literature with searching explorations of the meaning of race and innovative use of African American speech and folklore. Rejecting genteel Victorian hypocrisy about miscegenation, lynching, and "passing," Chesnutt exposed the deformed logic of Jim Crow with novels and stories of formal clarity-creating, in the process, the modern African American novel. The Conjure Woman (1899) introduced Chesnutt to the public as a writer of "conjure" tales, stories that explore black folklore and supernaturalism. That same year, he published The Wife of His Youth, and Other Stories of the Color Line, stories set in Chesnutt's native North Carolina that dramatize the legacies of slavery and Reconstruction at the turn of the century. His first novel, The House Behind the Cedars (1900) tells, as no previous novel ever had, of racial passing. The Marrow of Tradition (1901), Chesnutt's masterpiece, is a powerful and bitter novel about the harsh reassertion of white dominance in a southern town at the end of the Reconstruction era, based largely on the Wilmington race riot. Nine uncollected short stories, including conjure tales omitted from The Conjure Woman, round out a selection of the author's fiction. Eight essays highlight Chesnutt's prescient views on the paradoxes of race relations in America and the definition of race itself

The colonel's dream by Charles W Chesnutt( Book )

66 editions published between 1905 and 2014 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,223 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

In a progressive novel first published in 1905, former Confederate war hero Colonel French returns to his impoverished Southern hometown after years as a successful businessman in the North and struggles to revitalize the community despite a corrupt system that re-enslaves many of the town's black residents

Paul Marchand, F.M.C. by Charles W Chesnutt( Book )

14 editions published between 1998 and 2016 in English and Undetermined and held by 710 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

On discovering through an inheritance that he is white, Paul Marchand, a free man of color in 1820s New Orleans must renounce his mulatto wife and bastardize his children as mixed marriage is illegal. Marchand solves the problem by moving to France, even though this means giving up his fortune. A look at a man of honor

Charles W. Chesnutt : essays and speeches by Charles W Chesnutt( Book )

9 editions published in 1999 in English and held by 551 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The quarry by Charles W Chesnutt( Book )

11 editions published between 1999 and 2016 in English and Undetermined and held by 451 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A 1928 novel on a mulatto torn between passing for white and sticking up for blacks. For most of his life Donald Glover, a handsome man of letters, confronts tempting offers to take the easy way out

Evelyn's husband by Charles W Chesnutt( Book )

6 editions published between 2005 and 2009 in English and Undetermined and held by 333 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

This is one of the authors "white life " fiction books which relates the African American experience in the U.S