Author: Charles W Chesnutt
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Languages : en
Pages : 130
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"The Wife of His Youth" is a short story by American author Charles W. Chesnutt, first published in July 1898. It later served as the title story of the collection The Wife of His Youth and Other Stories of the Color-Line. That book was first published in 1899, the same year Chesnutt published his short story collection The Conjure Woman."The Wife of His Youth" features an upwardly mobile, light-skinned mulatto man, a respected member of the Blue Veins Society in a Midwestern city. He is preparing to marry another light-skinned mulatto woman when a much darker woman comes to him seeking her husband, whom she has not seen in 25 years. The story, which was met positively upon its publication, has become Chesnutt's most anthologized work.The story has been read as an analysis of race relations, not between black and white but within the black community, exploring its own color and class prejudices. The main character dreams of becoming white but ultimately seems to accept being black and the full history of African Americans in the United States. The ending of the story, however, has been called ambiguous and leaves several questions unanswered.
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Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 1442908912
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Languages : en
Pages : 530
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Author: Charles Waddell Chesnutt
Publisher: Litres
ISBN: 5041355819
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 351
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Author: Charles Waddell Chesnutt
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 1442908904
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Languages : en
Pages : 434
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Author: Charles Waddell Chesnutt
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781491088982
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 118
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Mr. Ryder was going to give a ball. There were several reasons why this was an opportune time for such an event. Mr. Ryder might aptly be called the dean of the Blue Veins. The original Blue Veins were a little society of colored persons organized in a certain Northern city shortly after the war. Its purpose was to establish and maintain correct social standards among a people whose social condition presented almost unlimited room for improvement. By accident, combined perhaps with some natural affinity, the society consisted of individuals who were, generally speaking, more white than black. Some envious outsider made the suggestion that no one was eligible for membership who was not white enough to show blue veins. The suggestion was readily adopted by those who were not of the favored few, and since that time the society, though possessing a longer and more pretentious name, had been known far and wide as the "Blue Vein Society," and its members as the "Blue Veins."
Author: Charles Waddell Chesnutt
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Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 344
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Author: W. (Charles Waddell) Charles Chesnutt
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ISBN: 9781444407488
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Languages : en
Pages : 186
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Languages : en
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Author: Charles W. Chesnutt
Publisher: DigiCat
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Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 221
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DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Wife of his Youth and Other Stories of the Color Line, and Selected Essays" by Charles W. Chesnutt. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Author: Charles Waddell Chesnutt
Publisher: Prabhat Prakashan
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Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 217
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Represents a 19th century American novel by an African American which is important to the study of American folklore, culture, anad literary history.
