Selected Works
- The Conjure Woman, and Other Conjure Tales (1899)
- The Wife of His Youth and Other Stories of the Color-Line (1899)
- Frederick Douglass (1899)
- The House Behind the Cedars (1900)
- The Marrow of Tradition (1901)
- The Colonel's Dream (1905)
- Mandy Oxendine (written in the 1890s; first published in 1997)
- Paul Marchand, F.M.C. (written in 1921; first published 1998, University Press of Mississippi)
- A Business Career (written in the 1890s; first published 2005, University Press of Mississippi)
- Evelyn's Husband (first published 2005, University Press of Mississippi)
Read more about this topic: Charles W. Chesnutt
Famous quotes containing the words selected and/or works:
“The final flat of the hoe’s approval stamp
Is reserved for the bed of a few selected seed.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
“I meet him at every turn. He is more alive than ever he was. He has earned immortality. He is not confined to North Elba nor to Kansas. He is no longer working in secret. He works in public, and in the clearest light that shines on this land.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)