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Author: Alice Dunbar Nelson Publisher: Graphic Arts Books ISBN: 1513287915 Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 77
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Violets and Other Tales (1895) is a collection of stories and poems by Alice Dunbar Nelson. While working as a teacher in New Orleans, Dunbar Nelson published Violets and Other Tales through The Monthly Review, embarking on a career as a leading black writer of the early twentieth century. “If perchance this collection of idle thoughts may serve to while away an hour or two, or lift for a brief space the load of care from someone's mind, their purpose has been served—the author is satisfied.” With this entreaty, Alice Dunbar Nelson introduces her first published work with a humility and caution rather unfitting an author of such immense talent. In this collection of reflections, vignettes, short stories, and poems, Dunbar Nelson proves herself as a writer immersed in the classics, yet capable of illuminating the events and concerns of her own generation. In “A Carnival Jangle,” she provides a vibrant description of New Orleans during its legendary season of celebration. “The Unknown Life of Jesus Christ” presents itself as a newly discovered manuscript revealing Jesus’ travels in India. Dunbar Nelson’s brilliant prose style is nicely juxtaposed with her expertise in poetic form as she moves fluidly from love poems to religious verses, narrative poems to heartbreaking elegies. Only twenty years old when this collection was published, Dunbar Nelson executes a brilliant debut to a long and distinguished career in literature. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Alice Dunbar Nelson’s Violets and Other Tales is a classic of African American literature reimagined for modern readers.
Author: Alice Dunbar Nelson Publisher: Graphic Arts Books ISBN: 1513287915 Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 77
Book Description
Violets and Other Tales (1895) is a collection of stories and poems by Alice Dunbar Nelson. While working as a teacher in New Orleans, Dunbar Nelson published Violets and Other Tales through The Monthly Review, embarking on a career as a leading black writer of the early twentieth century. “If perchance this collection of idle thoughts may serve to while away an hour or two, or lift for a brief space the load of care from someone's mind, their purpose has been served—the author is satisfied.” With this entreaty, Alice Dunbar Nelson introduces her first published work with a humility and caution rather unfitting an author of such immense talent. In this collection of reflections, vignettes, short stories, and poems, Dunbar Nelson proves herself as a writer immersed in the classics, yet capable of illuminating the events and concerns of her own generation. In “A Carnival Jangle,” she provides a vibrant description of New Orleans during its legendary season of celebration. “The Unknown Life of Jesus Christ” presents itself as a newly discovered manuscript revealing Jesus’ travels in India. Dunbar Nelson’s brilliant prose style is nicely juxtaposed with her expertise in poetic form as she moves fluidly from love poems to religious verses, narrative poems to heartbreaking elegies. Only twenty years old when this collection was published, Dunbar Nelson executes a brilliant debut to a long and distinguished career in literature. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Alice Dunbar Nelson’s Violets and Other Tales is a classic of African American literature reimagined for modern readers.
Author: Alice Dunbar Nelson Publisher: Read Books Ltd ISBN: 1528793099 Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 89
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Alice Dunbar Nelson (1875–1935) was an American journalist, political activist, and poet. She belonged to the first generation of black southerners born into freedom following the Civil War and gained acclaim for her poetry, columns, dramas, and stories. This fantastic book contains a brand new collection of Nelson's best and most famous poetry, highly recommended for poetry lovers interested in the history of slavery in the United States. First published in 1895, "Violets and Other Tales" is a collection of short essays, poems and stories written by Nelson when she was just 19 years old. Contents include: "Alice Dunbar Nelson", "Introduction", "Preface", "Violets", "Three Thoughts", "The Woman", "Ten Minutes' Musing", "A Plaint", "In Unconsciousness", "Titee", "Anarchy Alley", "Impressions", "Salammbo by Gustave Flanbert", etc. Read & Co. Classics are proudly republishing this collection in a new edition complete with a specially-commissioned new biography of the author.
Author: Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson Publisher: Good Press ISBN: Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 85
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This book by a black suffragette female writer Alice Dunbar-Nelson presents a collection of stories with unique characters. Each story leaves a specific incomparable aftertaste. The collection contains short essays, poems, and stories. The introduction to this book was written by the Black suffragette Sylvanie Williams, who Dunbar-Nelson presumably encountered during her time in turn-of-the-century New Orleans before moving to Harlem, New York.
Author: Alice Ruth Moore Dunbar-Nelson Publisher: ISBN: 9780988962781 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 0
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"Using the name Alice Dunbar, this book was originally published in 1899 as The Goodness of Saint Rocque and Other Stories by Dodd, Mead and Company in New York, and therefore falls under the public domain." -- Title page verso.
Author: Alice Dunbar Nelson Publisher: Read Books Ltd ISBN: 1528791010 Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 38
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Alice Dunbar Nelson (1875–1935) was an American journalist, political activist, and poet. She belonged to the first generation of black southerners born into freedom following the Civil War and gained acclaim for her poetry, columns, dramas, and stories. This fantastic book contains a brand new collection of Nelson's best and most famous poetry, highly recommended for poetry lovers with an interest in the history of slavery in the United States. Contents include: “Three Thoughts”, “A Plaint”, “Impressions”, “You! Inez!”, “Legend of the Newspaper”, “Amid the Roses”, “Paul to Virginia - Fin De Siecle”, “In Memoriam”, “At Bay St. Louis”, “I Sit and Sew”, “New Year's Day”, “Farewell”, “If I had Known”, “Chalmetle”, “The Idler”, etc. Other notable works by this author include: "As in a Looking Glass" (1926–1930), "The Colored United States" (1924), and “People of Color in Louisiana" (1917). Ragged Hand is proudly publishing this brand new collection of classic poetry with a specially-commissioned biography of the author.
Author: Stephen Woodworth Publisher: Dell ISBN: 0553898809 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 370
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“A fast, smart novel, brighter than a meteor and twice as scary. Stephen Woodworth provides shocks and thoughts in equal measure, and climbs right to the top!”—Greg Bear In a world where the dead can testify against the living, someone is getting away with murder. Because to every generation are born a select few souls with violet-colored eyes, and the ability to channel the dead. Both rare and precious—and rigidly controlled by a society that craves their services—these Violets perform a number of different duties. The most fortunate increase the world's cultural heritage by channeling the still-creative spirits of famous dead artists and musicians. The least fortunate aid the police and the law courts, catching criminals by interviewing the deceased victims of violent crime. But now the Violets themselves have become the target of a brutal serial murderer—a murderer who had learned how to mask his or her identity even from the victims. Can the FBI, aided by a Violet so scared of death that she is afraid to live, uncover the criminal in time? Or must more of her race be dispatched to the realm that has haunted them all since childhood? Praise for Through Violet Eyes “Chilling . . . shades of Minority Report and The Eyes of Laura Mars . . . tantalizing puzzle rife with red herrings, one made all the more entertaining by brisk pacing and strong internal logic.”—Publishers Weekly a“Wow . . . one cool idea and Stephen Woodworth makes it work like fine oiled machinery. Full of energy and suspense, Through Violet Eyes is a great and original first novel. I look forward to his next.”—Joe R. Lansdale “An eerie and compelling page-turner that maps the terra incognita between the living and the dead, loss and redemption, desire and grief, at the same time exploring what it means to be human in a frightening otherworld that too closely evokes our own reality.”—Elizabeth Hand
Author: Kyung-Sook Shin Publisher: Feminist Press at CUNY ISBN: 1558612912 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 158
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By Man Asian Literary Prize winner Kyung-Sook Shin, "a moving delve into a lonely psyche" that follows a neglected young woman's search for human connection in contemporary Seoul (YZ Chin). San is twenty-two and alone when she happens upon a job at a flower shop in Seoul’s bustling city center. Haunted by childhood rejection, she stumbles through life—painfully vulnerable, stifled, and unsure. She barely registers to others, especially by the ruthless standards of 1990s South Korea. Over the course of one hazy, volatile summer, San meets a curious cast of characters: the nonspeaking shop owner, a brash coworker, quiet farmers, and aggressive customers. Fueled by a quiet desperation to jump-start her life, she plunges headfirst into obsession with a passing magazine photographer. In Violets, best-selling author Kyung-Sook Shin explores misogyny, erasure, and repressed desire, as San desperately searches for both autonomy and attachment in the unforgiving reality of contemporary Korean society.
Author: Gina Chen Publisher: Hachette UK ISBN: 1399707124 Category : Young Adult Fiction Languages : en Pages : 372
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There's always a price for defying destiny. 'BEAUTIFULLY VICIOUS' Chloe Gong 'AN ENCHANTING DARK FANTASY' Sabaa Tahir Violet is a seer and a liar, influencing the court with her cleverly phrased - and not always true - divinations. Honesty is for suckers, like the oh-so-not-charming Prince Cyrus, who plans to banish her once he's crowned. But when the king orders her to predict Cyrus's love story for an upcoming ball, Violet accidentally awakens a dreaded curse that could ruin them all. Her wits may protect her in the cutthroat court, but they can't change her fate - nor the doomed attraction growing between her and the prince . . . The first in a darkly enchanting fantasy duology about a morally grey witch, a cursed prince, and a prophecy that ignites their fate-twisted destinies. PRAISE FOR GINA CHEN 'Entrancing' Joan He 'Violet made of thorns is thrilling, tense and highly addictive. A great read' Netgalley review - 5 stars 'Unforgettable' Hannah Whitten 'I would definitely recommend this book to the people that like books with an enemy to lovers trope, Beauty and the Beast vibes and romance' Netgalley review - 5 stars
Author: Alice Dunbar Nelson
Author: Alice Dunbar Nelson
Author: Alice Dunbar Nelson
Author: Alice Dunbar
Author: Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson
Author: Alice Ruth Moore
Author: Alice Ruth Moore Dunbar-Nelson
Author: Alice Dunbar Nelson
Author: Stephen Woodworth
Author: Kyung-Sook Shin
Author: Gina Chen