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Author
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
c1994
Language
English
Description
Presents the restored texts of four novels written by American author William Faulkner in the years between 1942 and 1954, based on his manuscripts, typescripts, and proof sheets, including "Go Down, Moses"; "Intruder in the Dust"; "Requiem for a Nun"; and "A Fable."
Author
Series
Library of America volume 102
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt / Open Road Integrated Media
Pub. Date
[1974]
Language
English
Description
"The classic short story collection of Southern life by the Pulitzer Prize--winning author of The Optimist's Daughter. These eight stories reveal the singular imaginative power of one of America's most admired writers. Set in the region of the Old Natchez Trace along the lower Mississippi, the stories dip in and out of history and range from virgin wilderness to a bar in New Orleans. In "First Love," set in 1807, a deaf and orphaned boot-boy has...
Author
Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
National Book Award Finalist: A stunning collection of Southern short fiction by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Keepers of the House. A family hides its poverty behind a façade of gentility. A mysterious stranger sows discord in a backwoods hamlet. A man leaves prison only to be drawn back into the darkness of his past. A young bride faces the choice of informing on her husband and his family or enduring a lifetime of deceit. These nine...
Author
Publisher
Dover Publications
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
"A pioneer in the development of fiction giving voice to the African-American experience, Charles Waddell Chesnutt (1858 -- 1932) found literary success with his "conjure tales" -- vignettes from black folk life, recounted partially in the vernacular -- and later with his "stories of the color line," which addressed more directly the problems of race in America. This outstanding, affordable volume presents a selection of the best of both conjure and...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Presents the final novel by author Ralph Ellison, telling the story of Adam Sunraider, a race-baiting senator from New England who, upon being shot while on the Senate floor, calls for Reverend Alonzo Hickman, the African-American Baptist minister who cared for the orphaned Sunraider when he was a child known as Bliss.
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