A Carnival Jangle
$14.57
- Paperback
112 pages
- Release Date
15 December 2026
Summary
Inspired by her own early life in New Orleans, Alice Dunbar Nelson’s stories are powerful and unflinching. These are stories of love, betrayal and fortitude peopled by an array of vivid characters whose dramas bring alive Creole life in the late 19th century.
Women must walk a tightrope between respectability and desire in stories such as “A Carnival Jangle.” Poverty is tackled head-on in the moving stories “Monsieur Fortier’s Violin” and “Little Miss Sophie,” whilst Catholic faith mi…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781037403415 |
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| ISBN-10: | 103740341X |
| Author: | Alice Dunbar Nelson |
| Publisher: | Pan Macmillan |
| Imprint: | Macmillan |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 112 |
| Release Date: | 15 December 2026 |
| Weight: | 90g |
| Dimensions: | 10mm x 110mm x 160mm |
| Audience Age: | 18 |
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Critics Review
A prolific, politically engaged writer whose poetry is only the beginning * The Paris Review *
Alice Dunbar Nelson
Alice Dunbar Nelson was born in New Orleans in 1875. Of mixed descent, she grew up amongst Creole society, and her upbringing informs much of her fiction. She graduated as a teacher and taught in schools throughout much of her life. She was also a published poet, journalist, public speaker, and activist, and she became a key figure of the Harlem Renaissance. Her first book, an anthology of prose and poetry titled Violets and Other Tales, was published in 1895. Her acclaimed short story collection, The Goodness of St. Rocque and Other Stories, followed in 1897. Her first marriage, to the poet Paul Laurence Dunbar, was short. She remarried twice, first to Arthur Callis, a doctor, and then to journalist and politician Robert J. Nelson. She died in Philadelphia in 1935.
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