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[Review of The Colonel's Dream]

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  • Source Text: Anonymous, "[Review of The Colonel's Dream]," Life 48 (October 11, 1906): 412.

Charles W. Chesnutt's novel, The Colonel's Dream, is the story of a Southern man who, retiring after a successful business career in the North, returns to his native town for a visit, becomes interested in its possibilities and attempts to use his means and his practical knowledge for its development. His reception, his popularity, his failure and his disgusted abandoning of his project are told with quiet appreciation of both sides of the significant little drama. This book is entertaining and most acceptably free from sensationalism.

  • Cite (Chicago style): Anonymous, "[Review of The Colonel's Dream]," The Charles W. Chesnutt Archive, Gen. Ed. Stephanie P. Browner, Matt Cohen, and Kenneth M. Price, accessed December 21, 2024. https://chesnuttarchive.org/item/ccda.rev00190.
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  • Rights information: The base text of the original item is in the public domain. The text encoding and editorial notes were created and/or prepared by the Charles W. Chesnutt Archive and are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). Any reuse of the material should credit the Charles W. Chesnutt Archive. [License]
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