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In The Conjure Woman

Read by James K. White


Charles Waddell Chesnutt


Published in 1899 by Houghton Mifflin, Chesnutt's first book, The Conjure Woman, was a collection of seven short stories, all set in "P…

Chapter III

In A Mayfair Magician; a Romance of Criminal Science

Read by James K. White


George Griffith


Our narrator, a researcher, finds himself snowed in at a Scottish prison. The resident doctor, an observer of criminal psychology, offers hi…

Dedication/Preface/Chapter I

In From the Darkness Cometh the Light, or Struggles for Freedom

Read by James K. White


Lucy Ann Delaney


In From the Darkness Cometh the Light, or Struggles for Freedom Delaney tells the story of how she was born into slavery of her mother--a fr…

Preface, Dedication, and Introduction

In The Life and Adventures of Peter Wilkins, Volume 1

Read by James K. White


Robert Paltock


This is a story about a Cornish man who becomes stranded on an island and survives much like Robinson Crusoe did. Although he finds enough t…

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