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

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

Frederick Douglass

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

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

Appreciation

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

The Goophered Grapevine

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

A Roman Antique

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

A Deep Sleeper

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

The Origin of the Hatchet Story

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

The Wife of His Youth

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

A Fatal Restriction

  • Date:
    • May 1, 1889
  • 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 Sheriff's Children

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

How a Good Man Went Wrong

  • Date:
    • November 28, 1888
  • 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 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

An Eloquent Appeal

  • Date:
    • June 6, 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

Dave's Neckliss

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

The Conjurer's Revenge

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

For Roosevelt

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

The Negro in Cleveland

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

Post-Bellum—Pre-Harlem

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

The Conjure Woman

  • 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 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

A Fool's Paradise

  • 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

Tom's Warm Welcome

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

A Virginia Chicken

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

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

Mars Jeems's Nightmare

  • 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)

Advice to Young Men

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

Methods of Teaching

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

Race Ideals and Examples

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

The Negro in Art

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

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

The Mission of the Drama

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

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

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

A Matter of Principle

  • 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

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