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.

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106 results

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

A Tight Boot

  • Date:
    • January 28, 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

The Wives

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

Tom's Warm Welcome

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

The Ballad of Fair Oscar

  • Date:
    • December 18, 1886
  • Creator(s):
    • Chesnutt, Charles W. (Waddell)
  • Format:
    • periodical
  • Source:
    • Tid-Bits

The Fall of Adam

  • Date:
    • December 25, 1886
  • Creator(s):
    • Chesnutt, Charles W. (Waddell)
  • Format:
    • periodical
  • Source:
    • Family Fiction

A Woman and a Burglar

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

A Busy Day in a Lawyer's Office

  • Date:
    • January 15, 1887
  • Creator(s):
    • Chesnutt, Charles W. (Waddell)
  • Format:
    • periodical
  • Source:
    • Tid-Bits

How Dasdy Came Through

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

A Soulless Corporation

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

Aunt Lucy's Search

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

Appreciation

  • Date:
    • April 20, 1887
  • Creator(s):
    • Chesnutt, Charles W. (Waddell)
  • Format:
    • periodical
  • Source:
    • Puck

Wine and Water

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

A Grass Widow

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

Stranger Taken In

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

The Goophered Grapevine

  • Date:
    • August 1887
  • Creator(s):
    • Chesnutt, Charles W. (Waddell)
  • Format:
    • periodical
  • Source:
    • The Atlantic Monthly

A Secret Ally

  • Date:
    • September 19, 1887
  • Creator(s):
    • Chesnutt, Charles W. (Waddell)
  • Format:
    • periodical
  • Source:
    • Chicago Daily Inter Ocean

She Reminded Him

  • Date:
    • September 21, 1887
  • Creator(s):
    • Chesnutt, Charles W. (Waddell)
  • Format:
    • periodical
  • Source:
    • Puck

A Midnight Adventure

  • Date:
    • December 6, 1887
  • Creator(s):
    • Chesnutt, Charles W. (Waddell)
  • Format:
    • periodical
  • Source:
    • Chicago Daily Inter Ocean

A Doubtful Success

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

Po' Sandy

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

An Eloquent Appeal

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

Cartwright's Mistake

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

How a Good Man Went Wrong

  • Date:
    • November 28, 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

The Origin of the Hatchet Story

  • Date:
    • April 24, 1889
  • Creator(s):
    • Chesnutt, Charles W. (Waddell)
  • Format:
    • periodical
  • Source:
    • Puck

A Fatal Restriction

  • Date:
    • May 1, 1889
  • Creator(s):
    • Chesnutt, Charles W. (Waddell)
  • Format:
    • periodical
  • Source:
    • Puck

What is a White Man?

  • Date:
    • May 30, 1889
  • Creator(s):
    • Chesnutt, Charles W. (Waddell)
  • Format:
    • periodical
  • Source:
    • The Independent

The Conjurer's Revenge

  • Date:
    • June 1889
  • Creator(s):
    • Chesnutt, Charles W. (Waddell)
  • Format:
    • periodical
  • Source:
    • The Overland Monthly

A Roman Antique

  • Date:
    • July 17, 1889
  • Creator(s):
    • Chesnutt, Charles W. (Waddell)
  • Format:
    • periodical
  • Source:
    • Puck

Dave's Neckliss

  • Date:
    • October, 1889
  • 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

A Cause Célèbre

  • Date:
    • January 14, 1891
  • Creator(s):
    • Chesnutt, Charles W. (Waddell)
  • Format:
    • periodical
  • Source:
    • Puck

A Multitude of Counselors

  • Date:
    • April 2, 1891
  • Creator(s):
    • Chesnutt, Charles W. (Waddell)
  • Format:
    • periodical
  • Source:
    • The Independent

Resolutions Concerning Recent Southern Outrages

  • Date:
    • June 4, 1892
  • Creator(s):
    • Chesnutt, Charles W. (Waddell)
  • Format:
    • periodical
  • Source:
    • The Cleveland Gazette

A Deep Sleeper

  • Date:
    • March 11, 1893
  • Creator(s):
    • Chesnutt, Charles W. (Waddell)
  • Format:
    • periodical
  • Source:
    • Two Tales

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

  • Date:
    • July 1898
  • Creator(s):
    • Chesnutt, Charles W. (Waddell)
  • Format:
    • periodical
  • Source:
    • The Atlantic Monthly

Hot-Foot Hannibal

  • Date:
    • January 1899
  • Creator(s):
    • Chesnutt, Charles W. (Waddell)
  • Format:
    • periodical
  • Source:
    • The Atlantic Monthly

Why is a Book Popular?

  • Date:
    • September 1, 1899
  • Creator(s):
    • Chesnutt, Charles W. (Waddell)
  • Format:
    • periodical
  • Source:
    • The Index

The Bouquet

  • Date:
    • November 1899
  • Creator(s):
    • Chesnutt, Charles W. (Waddell)
  • Format:
    • periodical
  • Source:
    • The Atlantic Monthly

Frederick Douglass

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

The Conjure Woman

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

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

Her Virginia Mammy

  • 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

Uncle Wellington's Wives

  • 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

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