The Wife of His Youth and Other Stories of the Color Line: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide
The Wife of His Youth and Other Stories of the Color Line by Charles Waddell Chesnutt: the LibriVox audiobook summary, 10 original MP3 tracks, 6:36:25 running time and a link to listen.
The Wife of His Youth and Other Stories of the Color Line, credited to Charles Waddell Chesnutt, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.
About the work
The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:
LibriVox recording of The Wife of His Youth and Other Stories of the Color Line, by Charles Waddell Chesnutt. Read by James K. White Published in 1899, The Wife of His Youth and Other Stories of the Color Line is a collection of narratives that addresses the impact of Jim Crow laws on African Americans and white Americans of the South. Many of Chesnutt's characters are of mixed-race ancestry which sets them apart for a specific yet degrading kind of treatment from blacks and whites. These stories examine particularly how life in the South was informed through a legacy of slavery and Reconstruction—how members of the “old dominion” desperately struggled to breath life into the corpse of an antebellum caste system that no longer defined the path and direction in which this country was headed. (Introduction by James K. White).
Recording facts
- Recording title: The Wife of His Youth and Other Stories of the Color Line
- Author credits: Charles Waddell Chesnutt
- Language: English
- Original MP3 tracks: 10
- Listed recording duration: 6:36:25
Track guide
- 01 - The Wife of His Youth — 30:14
- 02 - Her Virginia Mammy — 43:17
- 03 - The Sheriff's Children — 42:51
- 04 - A Matter of Principle — 46:43
- 05 - Cicely's Dream — 45:09
- 06 - The Passing of Grandison — 41:13
- 07 - Uncle Wellington's Wives (Chapters I & II) — 52:41
- 08 - Uncle Wellington's Wives (Chapters III & IV) — 27:57
- 09 - The Bouquet — 26:18
- 10 - The Web of Circumstance — 40:02
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