The Marrow of Tradition

Charles W. (Charles Waddell) Chesnutt

* * * * * THE GOOPHERED GRAPEVINE Some years ago my wife was in poor health, and our family doctor, in whose skill and honesty I had implicit confidence, advised a change...

Charles W. (Charles Waddell) Chesnutt

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Charles W. (Charles Waddell) Chesnutt

The Wife of His Youth and Other Stories of the Color Line, and Selected Essays Charles W. Chesnutt 1899 INTRODUCTION Charles Waddell Chesnutt (1858-1932)--African-American educator, lawye...

Charles W. (Charles Waddell) Chesnutt

I A STRANGER FROM SOUTH CAROLINA Time touches all things with destroying hand; and if he seem now and then to bestow the bloom of youth, the sap of spring, it is but a brief mockery, to be surely...

Jane Austen

Chapter 1 It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Letter 1 St. Petersburgh, Dec. 11th, 17-- TO Mrs. Saville, England You will rejoice to hear that no disaster has accompanied the commencement of an enterprise which you have regarded with such ...

Herman Melville

Original Transcriber's Notes: This text is a combination of etexts, one from the now-defunct ERIS project at Virginia Tech and one from Project Gutenberg's archives.

Charles Dickens

Book the First--Recalled to Life I. The Period It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was...