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The heart of Happy Hollow: a collection of stories

โœ Scribed by Paul Laurence Dunbar

Publisher
Crown/Archetype;Harlem Moon
Year
2005
Tongue
en-US
Weight
101 KB
Edition
1st Harlem Moon trade pbk
Category
Fiction

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โœฆ Synopsis

A historic collection of perceptive tales from a luminary of nineteenth-century literature

First published in 1904, The Heart of Happy Hollow features sixteen short stories that provide rare glimpses into the lives of African Americans after the Civil War. Through characters ranging from schemers to preachers, Paul Laurence Dunbar crafted a rare snapshot of long-lost communities and their poignant sensibilities. An author who achieved remarkable versatility, he draws on language that is by turns folksy and formal, putting forth controversial vernacular dialects as easily as he delivers a hauntingly poetic scene. In this collection, readers meet an influential entrepreneur who must navigate a treacherous political landscape; a Southern spiritual leader who must learn to accept the mores of his son, who was educated in the North; a reporter who restores hope in Santa Claus to a group of destitute siblings; and a host of other unique men and women giving voice to...

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