The Sport of the Gods
Dunbar, Paul Laurence, 1872-1906
The Sport of the Gods - 1 online resource : multiple file formats
Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sport_of_the_Gods Release date is 2006-02-25
Produced by Robert Ledger, Suzanne Shell and the Online
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"The Sport of the Gods" by Paul Laurence Dunbar is a novel published in 1902. When a Black butler is wrongly convicted of theft, his family is forced to flee the South for New York City. There, they encounter the harsh realities of Northern urban life as their dreams unravel. The father languishes in prison while his children fall into dangerous paths and his wife struggles to survive. This examination of early twentieth-century African American life explores how injustice and urban pressures can destroy a family. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
Domestic fiction African American families -- Fiction Rural-urban migration -- United States -- Fiction
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The Sport of the Gods - 1 online resource : multiple file formats
Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sport_of_the_Gods Release date is 2006-02-25
Produced by Robert Ledger, Suzanne Shell and the Online
Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net Produced by Robert Ledger, Suzanne Shell and the Online
Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net
"The Sport of the Gods" by Paul Laurence Dunbar is a novel published in 1902. When a Black butler is wrongly convicted of theft, his family is forced to flee the South for New York City. There, they encounter the harsh realities of Northern urban life as their dreams unravel. The father languishes in prison while his children fall into dangerous paths and his wife struggles to survive. This examination of early twentieth-century African American life explores how injustice and urban pressures can destroy a family. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
Domestic fiction African American families -- Fiction Rural-urban migration -- United States -- Fiction
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