The Sport of the GodsPaul Laurence Dunbar (1872—1906) overcame racism and poverty to become one of the best-known authors in America, and the first African American to earn a living from his poetry, fiction, drama, journalism, and lectures. This original collection includes the short novel The Sport of the Gods, Dunbar’s essential essays and short stories, and his finest poems, such as “Sympathy,” all which explore crucial social, political, and humanistic issues at the dawn of the twentieth century. |
Contents
The Hamiltons | |
A Farewell Dinner | |
The Theft | |
From a Clear | |
The Justice of | |
Outcasts | |
In New York | |
Broken Hopes | |
All the Worlds a Stage | |
The Oakleys | |
Frankenstein | |
Dear Damned Delightful Town | |
Skaggss Theory | |
A Yellow Journal | |
What Berry Found | |
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