Calling the Wind: Twentieth Century African-American Short StoriesClarence Major An anthology of twentieth-century African-American short stories written by Jean Toomer, Zora Neale Hurston, and more than fifty others, with biographical notes. |
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... Nora was a little inconvenient . My mother was a maid for the Couchmans . Ronald Couchman was an architect , a good one I understood from Nora , who has a fine sense for this sort of thing ; you don't work in some hundred - odd houses ...
... Nora was a little inconvenient . My mother was a maid for the Couchmans . Ronald Couchman was an architect , a good one I understood from Nora , who has a fine sense for this sort of thing ; you don't work in some hundred - odd houses ...
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... Nora didn't have to work , but she just couldn't be still ; she always had to be doing something . I suggested she ... Nora ! " he tried to roar , perhaps the way he'd seen the parents of some of his friends roar at their maids . I'm ...
... Nora didn't have to work , but she just couldn't be still ; she always had to be doing something . I suggested she ... Nora ! " he tried to roar , perhaps the way he'd seen the parents of some of his friends roar at their maids . I'm ...
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... Nora's affection for us took the form of rushing out into the morning's five o'clock blackness to wake some silly ... Nora's breast and sobbed . " There , there now , " Nora said . “ Don't you cry , Ronnie . Ol ' Wendell is just jealous ...
... Nora's affection for us took the form of rushing out into the morning's five o'clock blackness to wake some silly ... Nora's breast and sobbed . " There , there now , " Nora said . “ Don't you cry , Ronnie . Ol ' Wendell is just jealous ...
Contents
Paul Laurence Dunbar The Ingrate 1900 | 12 |
Jean Toomer Esther 1923 | 25 |
Claude McKay Truant 1932 | 39 |
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