The Marrow of Tradition

  • The Marrow of Tradition
    By Charles W. Chestnutt

    If he went on the street he'd make trouble, and if he accompanied us he'd do more harm than good. Wait for us here, Josh, ... “I called on Dr. Price,” said Miller, “my good friend Dr. Price, who would rather lie than hurt my feelings.

  • The Marrow of Tradition
    By Charles W. Chesnutt

    “'Member 'bout de ole 'oman, ef you lives thoo dis. Don' fergit de headbo'd an' de footbo'd, an' a silver plate on de coffin, efdere's money ernuff.” They went their way, and Miller hurried on. They might resist attack; he thought it ...

  • The Marrow of Tradition: Special Edition
    By Charles Waddell Chesnutt

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  • The Marrow of Tradition
    By Charles W. Chesnutt

    Series Editors : J. Paul Hunter , University of Chicago , and William E. Cain , Wellesley College About the Series Particularly appropriate for courses that emphasize a new historicist or cultural studies approach , Bedford Cultural ...

  • The Marrow of Tradition
    By Charles W. Chesnutt

    Chesnutt's novel, originally published in 1901, depicts the rise of the white supremacist movement after the failure of southern Reconstruction and led to the bloody tragedy of the Wilmington race riots.

  • The Marrow of Tradition
    By Charles W. Chesnutt

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  • The Marrow of Tradition
    By Charles W. Chesnutt

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  • The Marrow of Tradition
    By Charles Waddell Chesnutt

    A landmark in the history of African-American fiction, this gripping 1901 novel unfolds against the backdrop of the post-Reconstruction South, climaxing in a race riot based on an actual 1898 incident.

  • The Marrow of Tradition
    By Charles W. Chesnutt

    A landmark in the history of African American fiction, this gripping 1901 novel unfolds against the backdrop of the post-Reconstruction South, climaxing in a race riot based on an actual 1898 incident.

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  • The Marrow of Tradition
    By Charles Chesnutt

    The Marrow of Tradition (1901) is a historical novel by the African-American author Charles Chesnutt, set at the time and portraying a fictional account of the Wilmington Race Riot in North Carolina in 1898.

  • The Marrow of Tradition: Large Print
    By Charles W Chesnutt

    The Marrow of Tradition is a historical novel by the African-American author Charles W. Chesnutt, set at the time and portraying a fictional account of the Wilmington Insurrection of 1898 in Wilmington, North Carolina.

  • The Marrow of Tradition: African American Realist Fiction
    By Charles Waddell Chesnutt

    The Marrow of Tradition by Charles W. Chestnutt. The Marrow of Tradition is considered to be one of the most important works of African American realist fiction. Complete Edition.

  • The Marrow of Tradition: Large Print
    By Charles Waddell Chesnutt

    The Marrow of Tradition is a historical novel by the African-American author Charles W. Chesnutt, set at the time and portraying a fictional account of the Wilmington Insurrection of 1898 in Wilmington, North Carolina.

  • The Marrow of Tradition: Historical Novel
    By Charles W. Chesnutt

    The Marrow of Tradition (1901) is a historical novel by the African-American author Charles W. Chesnutt, set at the time and portraying a fictional account of the Wilmington Insurrection of 1898 in Wilmington, North Carolina.This story is a ...

  • The Marrow of Tradition
    By Charles Waddell Chesnutt

    The racial conflicts in the late-nineteenth century explode, permanently influencing the lives of black and white citizens of a small Southern city

  • The Marrow of Tradition
    By Charles W Chesnutt

    The Norton Library edition features the original 1901 text, explanatory endnotes, and a sweeping introduction by Autumn Womack (Princeton University) that thoroughly details the work's historical contexts, literary achievements, and ...

  • The Marrow of Tradition
    By Charles W. Chesnutt

    The novel takes the reader to uncharted territories where the emerging white aristocracy is trying to get rid of the ‘blacks’. This Xist Classics edition has been professionally formatted for e-readers with a linked table of contents.

  • The Marrow of Tradition
    By Charles Waddell Chesnutt

    A landmark in the history of African-American fiction, this gripping 1901 novel was among the first literary challenges to racial stereotypes. Its tragic history of 2 families unfolds against the...

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    By Charles W. Chesnutt

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