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The short fiction of Charles W. Chesnutt / edited and with an introduction by Sylvia Lyons Render.
- Title
- The short fiction of Charles W. Chesnutt / edited and with an introduction by Sylvia Lyons Render.
- Author
- Chesnutt, Charles W. (Charles Waddell), 1858-1932
- Publication
- Washington, D.C. : Howard University Press, 1974.
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- Additional Authors
- Render, Sylvia Lyons
- Description
- 422 pages; 24 cm
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Short stories
- Fictional Work
- short stories.
- Fiction
- Romans.
- Nouvelles.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Anecdotes: A tight boot -- Gratitude -- Appreciation -- An eloquent appeal -- A cause célèbre -- A soulless corporation -- Busy day in a lawyer's office -- A Roman antique -- She reminded him -- An original sentiment -- The tales. The origin of the hatchet story -- A midnight adventure -- Concerning father -- Tobe's tribulations -- Lonesome Ben -- A deep sleeper -- A victim of heredity -- Dave's neckliss -- The marked tree -- The dumb witness -- A Virginia chicken -- Uncle Peter's house -- The fall of Adam -- McDugald's mule -- Tom's warm welcome -- How a good man went wrong -- The short stories: A limb of Satan -- Aunt Mimy's son -- Aunt Lucy's search -- The march of progress -- The sway-backed house -- Wine and water -- The prophet Peter -- How Dasdy came through -- The partners -- Mr. Taylor's funeral -- A bad night -- The doctor's wife -- How he met her -- A metropolitan experience -- The shadow of my past -- A secret ally -- The kiss -- Cartwright's mistake -- A fool's paradise -- A grass widow -- Jim's romance -- The exception -- A miscarriage of justice -- Stryker's Waterloo -- Walter Knox's record -- The averted strike -- White weeds -- The doll -- Baxter's procrustes.
- ISBN
- 0882580124
- 9780882580128
- LCCN
- 73088973
- OCLC
- 2680706
- SCSB-11955691
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library