The Marrow of Tradition (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics)

Author: Charles W. Chesnutt
Publisher: Penguin Classics (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)
Format: Paperback
Condition: Used
Pages: 400
Published: 1993
ISBN: 9780140186864.

A searing Reconstruction-era novel set in a Southern town, inspired by the 1898 Wilmington coup and massacre. Chesnutt weaves courtroom drama and community conflict into a indictment of racial terror and the myths that sustain it—still urgent and teachable today.