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Works

Here users can find the writings of Chesnutt across multiple genres: all works of fiction he published in his lifetime, including five books and dozens of short stories; a sampling of more than a dozen of his essays and speeches; a handful of Chesnutt-authored reviews; and two poems. For these works, we try whenever possible to provide both a transcription and digital images of the individual printed pages.

All Works

106 items

Cartwright's Mistake

  • Date: September 19, 1888
  • Creator(s): Chesnutt, Charles W. (Waddell)
  • Format: periodical
  • Source: Buffalo Morning Express and Illustrated Buffalo Express

Aunt Lucy's Search

  • Date: April 16, 1887
  • Creator(s): Chesnutt, Charles W. (Waddell)
  • Format: periodical
  • Source: Family Fiction

Baxter's Procrustes

  • Date: June 1904
  • Creator(s): Chesnutt, Charles W. (Waddell)
  • Format: periodical
  • Source: Atlantic Monthly

Concerning Father

  • Date: May 1930
  • Creator(s): Chesnutt, Charles W. (Waddell)
  • Format: periodical
  • Source: The Crisis

Cicely's Dream

  • Date: 1899
  • Creator(s): Chesnutt, Charles W. (Waddell)
  • Format: book
  • Source: Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company

A Doubtful Success

  • Date: February 17, 1888
  • Creator(s): Chesnutt, Charles W. (Waddell)
  • Format: periodical
  • Source: The Daily Inter Ocean

A Fool's Paradise

  • Date: 1974
  • Creator(s): Chesnutt, Charles W. (Waddell)
  • Format: book
  • Source: Washington, D.C.: Howard University Press

A Grass Widow

  • Date: May 14, 1887
  • Creator(s): Chesnutt, Charles W. (Waddell)
  • Format: periodical
  • Source: Family Fiction

The Gray Wolf's Ha'nt

  • Date: 1899
  • Creator(s): Chesnutt, Charles W. (Waddell)
  • Format: book
  • Source: Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company

The Web of Circumstance

  • Date: 1899
  • Creator(s): Chesnutt, Charles W. (Waddell)
  • Format: book
  • Source: Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company

A Virginia Chicken

  • Date: 1974
  • Creator(s): Chesnutt, Charles W. (Waddell)
  • Format: book
  • Source: Washington, D.C.: Howard University Press

Wine and Water

  • Date: April 23, 1887
  • Creator(s): Chesnutt, Charles W. (Waddell)
  • Format: periodical
  • Source: Family Fiction

Methods of Teaching

  • Date: 1999
  • Creator(s): Chesnutt, Charles W. (Waddell)
  • Format: book
  • Source: Standford, California: Stanford University Press

Tom's Warm Welcome

  • Date: November 27, 1886; 1974
  • Creator(s): Chesnutt, Charles W. (Waddell)
  • Format: book
  • Source: Family Fiction

Uncle Wellington's Wives

  • Date: 1899
  • Creator(s): Chesnutt, Charles W. (Waddell)
  • Format: book
  • Source: Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company

McDugald's Mule

  • Date: 1974
  • Creator(s): Chesnutt, Charles W. (Waddell)
  • Format: book
  • Source: Washington, D.C.: Howard University Press

Her Virginia Mammy

  • Date: 1899
  • Creator(s): Chesnutt, Charles W. (Waddell)
  • Format: book
  • Source: Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company

Mars Jeems's Nightmare

  • Date: 1899
  • Creator(s): Chesnutt, Charles W. (Waddell)
  • Format: book
  • Source: Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company

The Passing of Grandison

  • Date: 1899
  • Creator(s): Chesnutt, Charles W. (Waddell)
  • Format: book
  • Source: Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company

Sis' Becky's Pickaninny

  • Date: 1899
  • Creator(s): Chesnutt, Charles W. (Waddell)
  • Format: book
  • Source: Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company

How Dasdy Came Through

  • Date: February 12, 1887
  • Creator(s): Chesnutt, Charles W. (Waddell)
  • Format: periodical
  • Source: Family Fiction

A Matter of Principle

  • Date: 1899
  • Creator(s): Chesnutt, Charles W. (Waddell)
  • Format: book
  • Source: Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company

Stranger Taken In

  • Date: June 1, 1887
  • Creator(s): Chesnutt, Charles W. (Waddell)
  • Format: periodical
  • Source: City and Farm Record (Topeka, KS)

A Woman and a Burglar

  • Date: January 12, 1887
  • Creator(s): Chesnutt, Charles W. (Waddell)
  • Format: periodical
  • Source: The McHenry (IL) Plaindealer

Things to Be Thankful For

  • Date: 1999
  • Creator(s): Chesnutt, Charles W. (Waddell)
  • Format: book
  • Source: Standford, California: Stanford University Press

Resolutions

  • Date: November 20, 1920
  • Creator(s): Chesnutt, Charles W. (Waddell)
  • Format: periodical
  • Source: The Cleveland Gazette

For Roosevelt

  • Date: October 22, 1904
  • Creator(s): Chesnutt, Charles W. (Waddell)
  • Format: periodical
  • Source: The Cleveland Gazette

The Shadow of My Past

  • Date: September 24, 1893
  • Creator(s): Chesnutt, Charles W. (Waddell)
  • Format: periodical
  • Source: The Philadelphia Inquirer

The Wife of His Youth and Other Stories of the Color Line

  • Date: 1899
  • Creator(s): Chesnutt, Charles W. (Waddell)
  • Format: book
  • Source: Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company

The Negro in Art

  • Date: November 1926
  • Creator(s): Chesnutt, Charles W. (Waddell)
  • Format: periodical
  • Source: The Crisis

The Future American: A Complete Race-Almagamation Likely to Occur

  • Date: September 1, 1900
  • Creator(s): Chesnutt, Charles W. (Waddell)
  • Format: periodical
  • Source: The Boston Evening Transcript

Post-Bellum—Pre-Harlem

  • Date: February 1931
  • Creator(s): Chesnutt, Charles W. (Waddell)
  • Format: periodical
  • Source: The Colophon

The Negro in Cleveland

  • Date: November 1930
  • Creator(s): Chesnutt, Charles W. (Waddell)
  • Format: periodical
  • Source: The Clevelander

The Conjure Woman

  • Date: 1899
  • Creator(s): Chesnutt, Charles W. (Waddell)
  • Format: book
  • Source: Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company

The Future American: What the Race is Likely to Become in The Process of Time

  • Date: August 18, 1900
  • Creator(s): Chesnutt, Charles W. (Waddell)
  • Format: periodical
  • Source: Boston Evening Transcript

Race Ideals and Examples

  • Date: October 1913
  • Creator(s): Chesnutt, Charles W. (Waddell)
  • Format: periodical
  • Source: A.M.E. Review

Advice to Young Men

  • Date: 1999
  • Creator(s): Chesnutt, Charles W. (Waddell)
  • Format: book
  • Source: Stanford, California: Stanford University Press

The Future American: A Stream of Dark Blood in the Veins of the Southern Whites

  • Date: August 25, 1900
  • Creator(s): Chesnutt, Charles W. (Waddell)
  • Format: periodical
  • Source: Boston Evening Transcript

The Mission of the Drama

  • Date: January 1920
  • Creator(s): Chesnutt, Charles W. (Waddell)
  • Format: periodical
  • Source: Cygnet

Frederick Douglass

  • Date: 1899
  • Creator(s): Chesnutt, Charles W. (Waddell)
  • Format: book
  • Source: Boston, Massachusetts: Small, Maynard & Company

The House Behind the Cedars

  • Date: 1900
  • Creator(s): Chesnutt, Charles W. (Waddell)
  • Format: book
  • Source: Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin & Co.

Frisk's First Rat

  • Date: March 20, 1875
  • Creator(s): Chesnutt, Charles W. (Waddell)
  • Format: periodical
  • Source: The Educator

Uncle Peter's House

  • Date: December 9, 1885; December 10, 1885
  • Creator(s): Chesnutt, Charles W. (Waddell)
  • Format: periodical
  • Source: Pittsburgh Chronicle Telegraph

The Wives

  • Date: October 8, 1886
  • Creator(s): Chesnutt, Charles W. (Waddell)
  • Format: periodical
  • Source: Boston Daily Globe

A Bad Night

  • Date: July 22, 1886
  • Creator(s): Chesnutt, Charles W. (Waddell)
  • Format: periodical
  • Source: Pittsburgh Chronicle Telegraph

A Soulless Corporation

  • Date: April 16, 1887
  • Creator(s): Chesnutt, Charles W. (Waddell)
  • Format: periodical
  • Source: Tid-Bits

An Eloquent Appeal

  • Date: June 6, 1888
  • Creator(s): Chesnutt, Charles W. (Waddell)
  • Format: periodical
  • Source: Puck

Gratitude

  • Date: December 26, 1888
  • Creator(s): Chesnutt, Charles W. (Waddell)
  • Format: periodical
  • Source: Puck

Po' Sandy

  • Date: May 1888
  • Creator(s): Chesnutt, Charles W. (Waddell)
  • Format: periodical
  • Source: The Atlantic Monthly

The Sheriff's Children

  • Date: November 7, 1889
  • Creator(s): Chesnutt, Charles W. (Waddell)
  • Format: periodical
  • Source: The Independent
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