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"The Wife of His Youth" follows Mr. Ryder, a biracial man who was born and reared free before the Civil War. He heads the "Blue Veins Society", a social organization for colored people in a northern town; the membership consists of people with a high proportion of European ancestry, who look more white than black.
"The Passing of Grandison" is a short story written by Charles W. Chesnutt and published in the collection The Wife of His Youth and Other Stories of the Color-Line (1899). [1] The story takes place in the United States in the early 1850s, [ 2 ] at the time of anti-slavery sentiment and the abolitionist movement in the Northern United States ...
John Fante (April 8, 1909 – May 8, 1983) was an American novelist, short story writer, and screenwriter. He is best known for his semi-autobiographical novel Ask the Dust (1939) about the life of Arturo Bandini, a struggling writer in Depression-era Los Angeles.
With a potential government shutdown looming ahead of the holidays, here's what you need to know if mail services will be impacted by it.
(The Center Square) – A $60 million deficit facing the Memphis Area Transit Authority, a "friendly" restaurant deal in Lebanon and another fumble for Nashville's Nissan Stadium project topped ...
Deborah Heller, Getting Loose: Women and Narration in Alice Munro's Friend of my Youth, in: The rest of the story. Critical essays on Alice Munro, edited by Robert Thacker, ECW Press, Toronto 1999, ISBN 1-55022-392-5, pp. 60–80.
A suspect is in custody after a knife attack at Grand Central 42 Street subway station in New York injured two with neck and wrist slashes.
3 "Wife of Youth" is a Biblical reference. 3 comments. Toggle the table of contents ...