STORIES, NOVELS, & ESSAYS

The Conjure Woman
The Wife of His Youth and Other Stories of the Color Line
The House Behind the Cedars
The Marrow of Tradition
Uncollected Stories
Selected Essays

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THE CONJURE WOMAN

The Goophered Grapevine
Po' Sandy
Mars Jeems's Nightmare
The Conjurer's Revenge
Sis' Becky's Pickaninny
The Gray Wolf's Ha'nt
Hot-Foot Hannibal

THE WIFE OF HIS YOUTH AND OTHER STORIES OF THE COLOR LINE

The Wife of His Youth
Her Virginia Mammy
The Sheriff's Children
A Matter of Principle
Cicely's Dream
The Passing of Grandison
Uncle Wellington's Wives
The Bouquet
The Web of Circumstance

The House Behind the Cedars

The Marrow of Tradition

Uncollected Stories

Dave's Neckliss
A Deep Sleeper
Lonesome Ben
The Dumb Witness
The March of Progress
Baxter's Procrustes
The Doll
White Weeds
The Kiss

SELECTED ESSAYS

What Is a White Man?
The Future
American Superstitions and Folk-Lore of the South
Charles W. Chesnutt's Own View of His New Story, The Marrow of Tradition
The Disfranchisement of the Negro
The Courts and the Negro
Post-Bellum—Pre-Harlem

Chronology

Note on the Texts

Notes