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Charles W. Chesnutt
1858 – 1932, american
The Portable Charles W. Chesnutt
Edited with an Introduction by
William L. Andrews
Henry Louis Gates, Jr., General Editor
An icon of nineteenth-century American
fiction, Charles W. Chesnutt—an incisive
storyteller of the aftermath of slavery in
the South—was the first African American
novelist to achieve national critical acclaim.
This major addition to the Penguin Classics
features an ideal sampling of his work:
twelve short stories, three essays, and the
novel The Marrow of Tradition.
608 pp. 978-0-14-310534-3 $18.00
Conjure Tales and Stories of the
Color Line
Edited with an Introduction by
William Andrews
Chesnutt probed psychological depths
in black people previously unheard of in
Southern regional writing. This important
collection brings together all the stories in
his two published volumes, The Conjure
Woman and The Wife of His Youth, along
with two uncollected works: “Dave’s
Neckliss” and “Baxter’s Procustes.”
304 pp. 978-0-14-118502-6 $14.00
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The House Behind the Cedars
Edited with an Introduction by
Donald B. Gibson
An early masterwork among American
literary treatments of miscegenation,
Chesnutt’s story is of two young African
Americans who decide to pass for white in
order to claim their share of the American
dream.
304 pp. 978-0-14-018685-7 $14.00
The Marrow of Tradition
Edited with an Introduction and Notes by
Eric J. Sundquist
This novel is based on a historically
accurate account of the Wilmington,
North Carolina, “race riot” of 1898, and
is a passionate portrait of the betrayal of
black culture in America, written by an
acclaimed African American writer.
336 pp. 978-0-14-018686-4 $15.00
See The Portable American Realism Reader.
g. k. Chesterton
1874 – 1936, english
The Man Who Was Thursday
A Nightmare
Introduction by Kingsley Amis
Named after the days of the week for
security reasons, the seven members of the
Central Anarchist Council vow to destroy
the world.
192 pp. 978-0-14-018388-7 $10.00
erskine Childers
1870 – 1922 irish, (b. england)
The Riddle of the Sands
Foreword by Geoffrey Household
First published in 1903, this gripping
tale of espionage is “the first and best of
spy stories” (The Times, London) and
a brilliant forerunner to the work of
Graham Greene and John le Carré.
336 pp. 978-0-14-118165-3 $10.00
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