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Folks from Dixie

by Paul Laurence Dunbar

EN·~4 hours·14 chapters

Chapters

14 total

List of Illustrations

0:21

Folks from Dixie

0:01

ANNER ’LIZER’S STUMBLIN’ BLOCK

26:29

THE ORDEAL AT MT. HOPE

41:05

THE COLONEL’S AWAKENING

12:17

THE TRIAL SERMONS ON BULL-SKIN

30:20

JIMSELLA

8:54

MT. PISGAH’S CHRISTMAS ’POSSUM

9:19

A FAMILY FEUD

22:28

AUNT MANDY’S INVESTMENT

8:50

Description

Set against a stark winter landscape on a Kentucky plantation, the story follows Anner ’Lizer, a strikingly beautiful young woman whose presence lights up the

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Release date

2024-12-29

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

Source

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/74993

Subjects

Short stories, American African Americans -- Fiction Southern States -- Social life and customs -- Fiction PS

About the author

Paul Laurence Dunbar

1872–1906

One of the first Black writers in the United States to win broad national attention, he wrote poetry, fiction, and essays that brought everyday Black life into American literature with wit, music, and feeling. His work ranges from lyrical standard English verse to dialect poems that made him famous in his own time.

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