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Author:

Chesnutt, Charles Waddell, 1858-1932,

Title:

Conjure tales and stories of the color line / Charles W. Chesnutt ; edited and with an introduction by William L. Andrews.

Publisher:

Penguin,

Copyright Date:

2000

Description:

xxi, 278 p. ; 20 cm.

Subject:

Afro-Americans--Southern States.--Fiction.
Southern states.--Fiction.

Other Authors:

Andrews, William L., 1946-

Notes:

Previously published as Collected stories of Charles W. Chesnutt. Includes bibliographical references (p. xix-xx).

Contents:

The goophered grapevine -- Po' Sandy -- Mars Jeem's nightmare -- The conjurer's revenge -- Sis' Becky's pickanniny -- The gray wolf's ha'nt -- Hog-foot Hannibal -- Dave's neckliss -- The wife of his youth -- Her Virginia mammy -- The sheriff's children -- A matter of principle -- Cicely's dream -- The passing of grandison -- Uncle Wellington's wives -- The bouquet -- The web of circumstance -- Baxter's procrustes.

Series:

Penguin classics
Penguin Twentieth-century classics

ISBN:

9780141185026
0141185023

OCLC:

(OCoLC)44641665

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

CAPH522 -- Iowa City Public Library (Iowa City)

UTAX115 -- Buena Vista University Library (Storm Lake)