Violets And Other Tales
Alice Dunbar Nelson
Read by James K. White
This is a collection of the author's short stories and poems where she writes about the collective experience of African American women, and African Americans in general. But she is sharpest when she pushes back against the notion that women must accept and endure a subservient role to men. - Summary by James K. White (3 hr 15 min)
Chapters
| Introduction and Preface | 5:04 | Read by James K. White |
| Violets | 5:51 | Read by James K. White |
| Three Thoughts | 3:27 | Read by James K. White |
| The Woman | 9:16 | Read by James K. White |
| Ten Minutes' Musing | 6:00 | Read by James K. White |
| A Plaint/In Unconsciousness | 11:20 | Read by James K. White |
| Titee | 14:05 | Read by James K. White |
| Anarchy Alley | 8:39 | Read by James K. White |
| Impressions | 2:36 | Read by James K. White |
| Salammbo | 8:44 | Read by James K. White |
| Legend of the Newspaper | 4:39 | Read by James K. White |
| A Carnival Jangle | 9:30 | Read by James K. White |
| Paul to Virginia (Fin de Siecle)/The Maiden's Dream | 11:08 | Read by James K. White |
| In Memoriam | 4:17 | Read by James K. White |
| A Story of Vengeance | 9:40 | Read by James K. White |
| At Bay St. Louis/New Year's Day | 4:09 | Read by James K. White |
| The Unknown Life of Jesus Christ | 13:46 | Read by James K. White |
| In Our Neighborhood | 18:10 | Read by James K. White |
| Farewell/Little Miss Sophie | 19:24 | Read by James K. White |
| If I Had Known/Chalmette | 5:07 | Read by James K. White |
| At Eventide | 9:24 | Read by James K. White |
| The Idler/Love and the Butterfly | 2:53 | Read by James K. White |
| The Bee-Man/Amid The Roses | 8:46 | Read by James K. White |
Reviews
R. Lintern
This enjoyable collection of tales is read with great verve and skill by James K. White. There are a good variety of subjects and styles of writing here and of the sort of length that the book can be dipped into if you only have a short while available.