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The classic collection of short stories by Charles W. Chesnutt, trailblazing African-American author. Based in African-American folklore and traditions, the stories tell of life in the American South after the Civil War. With the occasional influence of the supernatural or hoodoo... Read Full Overview

The Conjure Woman (1899) is a collection of stories by African American author, lawyer, and political activist Charles Chesnutt. "The Goophered Grapevine," the collection's opening story, was originally published in The Atlantic in 1887, making Chesnutt the first... Read Full Overview

A classic collection of short stories, including the following:THE GOOPHERED GRAPEVINE,PO' SANDY,MARS JEEMS'S NIGHTMARE,THE CONJURER'S REVENGE,SIS' BECKY'S PICKANINNY,THE GRAY WOLFS HA'NT,HOT-FOOT HANNIBAL,DAVE'S NECKLISS, A DEEP SLEEPER,LONESOME BEN.

The Conjure Woman is the title of an 1899 collection of seven stories by Charles W. Chesnutt, an important African American writer from the post-Civil War South; it was his first book. The stories deal with the racial issues facing the South after the war, often through the comments... Read Full Overview

The Conjure Woman is a collection of short stories by African-American fiction writer, essayist, and activist Charles W. Chesnutt. First published in 1899, The Conjure Woman is considered a seminal work of African-American literature.

The Conjure Woman is an 1899 collection of short stories by American writer Charles W. Chesnutt. It is Chesnutt's first book, and an important work of African American literature. The seven stories deal with the racial issues facing the South after the war, often through the... Read Full Overview

The Conjure Woman is a collection of short stories by African-American fiction writer, essayist, and activist Charles W. Chesnutt. First published in 1899, The Conjure Woman 1] is considered a seminal work of African-American literature.Chesnutt wrote the collection's first story,... Read Full Overview

First published in 1899, these folk tales within a tale provide commentary on the social attitudes of the period

An early slave narrative, a skilfully woven satire on the stereotypes of plantation life and the apparently beneficent white owner. Told as a series of gentle fables, in the style of Aesop.

The Conjure Woman, as first published by Houghton Mifflin, was not wholly Chesnutt's creation but a work shaped and selected by his editors. This edition reassembles for the first time all of Chesnutt's work in the conjure tale genre, the entire imaginative feat of which the... Read Full Overview

Venture into the heart of the American South with Charles W. Chesnutt's "The Conjure Woman," a collection of captivating short stories steeped in African American folklore. Originally published in 1899, these tales offer a glimpse into the social life and customs of the era... Read Full Overview

Venture into the heart of the American South with Charles W. Chesnutt's "The Conjure Woman," a collection of captivating short stories steeped in African American folklore. Originally published in 1899, these tales offer a glimpse into the social life and customs of the era... Read Full Overview

The Conjure Woman (1899) by Charles W. Chesnutt is a collection of short stories set in the post-Civil War South. The tales are narrated by Uncle Julius, a formerly enslaved man, to a Northern white couple who have moved to North Carolina. Julius tells vivid, supernatural... Read Full Overview

The Conjure Woman (1899) by Charles W. Chesnutt is a collection of short stories set in the post-Civil War South. The tales are narrated by Uncle Julius, a formerly enslaved man, to a Northern white couple who have moved to North Carolina. Julius tells vivid, supernatural... Read Full Overview

The Conjure Woman is a collection of short stories by African-American fiction writer, essayist, and activist Charles W. Chesnutt. First published in 1899, it is considered a seminal work of African-American literature. Written in the late nineteenth century, a time of enormous... Read Full Overview