Three Classic African-American Novels: Clotel, Iola Leary, The Marrow of Tradition

by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Frances Ellen Watkin Harper, Charles W. Chesnutt, et al.

Book Overview

William Wells Brown, Frances E.W. Harper, and Charles W. Chesnutt, three black writers who bore witness to the experience of their people under slavery, create a portrait of black life in the 19th century in these three novels.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0679727426
• ISBN13: 9780679727422
• Release Date: August 1990
• Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Length: 768 Pages
• Weight: 1.56 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 5.2" x 8.1"

Customer Reviews

Very useful for anyone studying novels of passing and early African-American lit

I ordered this book because it contained three of the novels I wanted to read as research for a chapter of my thesis. It was a great way to spend less money on these novels!