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The Conjure Woman / by Charles W. Chesnutt.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Chesnutt, Charles W. (Charles Waddell), 1858-1932.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Dialect literature, American--North Carolina.
- Dialect literature, American.
- African Americans--Southern States--Fiction.
- African Americans.
- African Americans--North Carolina--Fiction.
- North Carolina--Fiction.
- North Carolina.
- Southern States.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Short stories.
- Physical Description:
- 6 unnumbered pages, 229 pages, 3 unnumbered pages ; 19 cm
- Manufacture:
- Cambridge, Massachusetts, U. S. A. : The Riverside Press, Electrotyped and printed by H. O. Hougton and Co.
- Place of Publication:
- Boston New York : Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1899.
- Contents:
- The goophered grapevine.
- Po' Sandy.
- Mars Jeems's nightmare.
- The conjurer's revenge.
- Sis' Becky's pickaninny.
- The gray wolf's ha'nt.
- Hot-foot Hannibal.
- Notes:
- "Copyright, 1899, by Charles W. Chesnutt."
- The author's first book.
- "'The Conjurer's Revenge' is reprinted from The Overland Monthly."
- Beige cloth boards lettered in gilt on front cover and spine. Front cover has pictorial panel at the top divided into three sections with two rabbit heads on each side and a representation of the character "Julius MacAdoo" in the center against a red background.
- OCLC:
- 3958825
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